Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's naval airmen returned to Harvard Saturday to play Coach MacDonald's squad a re-match of the tie they had suffered the previous week. After a good five minutes, the contest ended to all intents and purposes, as the British ran away with both the A and B team games...
...start after the Navy drill, is the result of universal dissatisfaction with the last game. The British, playing under a no-substitution rule, were piqued because of the numerous Harvard substitutions, while the Crimson men felt that they could have won in ten more minutes, and petitioned Coach Jack MacDonald for a replay...
...definite team A was chosen Wednesday by Coach MacDonald, and uniforms will be issued today or tomorrow to the squad. A game with Andover has been scheduled for the B team on October 2, and other prep school games are expected to follow...
...effort will be certain of success. But the High Commands do not depend on air offensives. Neither the intensification of the air campaign nor the first sea-&-land steps toward Germany's inner fortress will mean that the basic conception has been altered or abandoned. In Ottawa, Commissioner MacDonald presumably had these facts in mind when he said...
...rearmament of any kind. Sir Samuel Hoare, though he made some constructive suggestions, never got out on a limb that might lose the Government votes. Churchill was an ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those years were...