Word: maxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted $250,000 for official celebration of Their Majesties' Silver Jubilee after stringy-haired Scottish Laborite James Maxton, M.P. had hoarsely denounced "this costly carnival of monarchist propaganda...
Speaking quietly in the Commons last week for a group of Scottish proletarian M.P. s, Mr. Maxton said: "A very large proportion of the world manages to conduct its affairs reasonably well without maintaining an hereditary monarchy. My group does not propose to cast any votes which tend to perpetuate a monarchist institution...
...Froze into shocked silence when the Independent Labor Party's most potent, earnest and respected Red, James Maxton, rose shaggy-haired and smouldering-eyed, to ask the Prime Minister "whether this House will have an opportunity to discuss" the upping of the Duke of Kent's civil list from ?15,000 to ?25,000 ($125.000) per year on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Marina...
...Scot MacDonald's freezing answer to Scot Maxton...
...meagre hosts of British Fascism won a great victory last week over cocoa. Last February the London Evening Star of the cocoa-famed Cadbury brothers incautiously reported a debate between Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and Laborite James Maxton. "Sir Oswald," said the Evening Star, "warned Maxton that he and his Fascists would be ready to take over the government with the aid of machine guns when the moment arrived...