Word: mosleyism
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...dropping of Mr. Thomas meant the picking up of someone else. This someone's feathery little black moustache fairly quivered with excitement. When his election was announced the Conference burst into cheers and loud guffaws for Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
Those who cheered regard Sir Oswald as a sincere, hardworking convert to Socialism. He was assigned last year to help Jim Thomas fight unemployment. He resigned in protest at the latter's happy-go-lucky methods, drafted a plan of his own, the secret Mosley Memorandum (TIME, June 2) which was submitted to Scot MacDonald but never published...
Albert Bates Lord '34, Boston Latin School; Charles Montague Johnson '34, Needham High School; Williard Copt Jones '34, Roxbury Latin; and Francis Joseph Mosley '34, Canton High School, China...
...into a finance bill must be rammed through regardless of the cost to the house or to the party of which he is a prominent feature, if not always a bright ornament." The Chancellor made no reply, sat white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members...
...Just before the last British election Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were in Berlin, where they lavishly entertained the late, great Foreign Minister Stresemann and his vivacious wife. After talking with them, Frau Stresemann, who knows little (and does not claim to know anything) of British politics, confided to a German friend that she 'quite hoped" dear Lady Mosley's husband was going to be made Prime Minister then and there instead of plebian Mr. MacDonald...