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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Scot MacDonald's freezing answer to Scot Maxton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cocoa & Machine Guns | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...bill brands His Majesty's forces as lunatics, if they remain loyal, knowing they are barred from hearing the Opposition!" scoffed gaunt, stringy-haired James Maxton, the Labor Party's No. 1 near-Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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