Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
Friday. The retiring Tory Cabinet drove to Windsor, handed over their seals of office to the King-Emperor. At the same time Prime Minister MacDonald published an official list of members of the new Labor Cabinet...
...James Ramsay MacDonald Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...
James Henry Thomas's real duties will be to act as a Minister of Employment. To him the Prime Minister gave the mighty task of settling Britain's unemployment, gravest problem in England today...
...Cabinet ministers and ministers not of Cabinet rank. Oldest in the MacDonald Cabinet is Lord Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went...