Word: maxton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wages fall below the dole," roared Clydeside Leader Jim Maxton, "we shall know how to raise wages...
When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like...
...other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the House voted a resolution enabling Mr. Thomas to go ahead with his plans. Sharpest criticism came from burly James Maxton, leader of the extreme Left Laborite faction. After flaying the Government for "compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some say that Labor will run the Government for 20 years. God knows, at the rate we are going, we will need every minute...
Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...
...Harkened with amusement to a bill presented by Mr. Maxton (Laborite M. P.) providing for the nationalization of the Bank of England...