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...Ramsay Pressure Putter. In Great Britain last week realists at once saw that to accomplish President Hoover's purpose?if it can be accomplished?extreme pressure will have to be brought on France?and on Italy which would sacrifice...
...James Ramsay MacDonald admitted to correspondents that he is President Hoover's pressure-putter. "I am charged with the diplomatic side of the question." said he. "Negotiations may be necessary with certain powers." On July 17 Pressure-Putter MacDonald will go to Berlin, will return the pressure-putting call of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on Scot MacDonald at "Chequer." (TIME, June 15). Thus world public opinion will be mobilized against expected French opposition...
Married. Eleanor Pratt, granddaughter of the late Charles Pratt who was a co-founder of Standard Oil Co. and founder of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior...
Plainly and obviously the distribution of these honors was a move by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to regain the Jewish favor he lost at the time of the Palestine crisis (TIME, Nov. 3). Anxious, too, about Arab goodwill in Palestine, Mr. MacDonald "advised" (i. e. caused) His Majesty to knight Zahda Haddad, Arab Medical Officer at Haifa...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...