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Inconsistent Ramsay. The Prime Minister dashed from the Imperial Conference at London to speak at Llandudno last week, won a vote of confidence on government policy. His speech was amazing. In some passages Mr. MacDonald flayed the very notion of putting a tariff wall around the Empire, called all tariffs "quack remedies"; but soon he was threatening reprisals?apparently tariff reprisals ?against nations which should raise their tariffs against Empire goods...
Thus testified fiery little David Lloyd George (Liberal) last week and was stoutly backed up by Stanley Baldwin (Conservative). Soon James Ramsay MacDonald (Laborite) made this judgment of two former Prime Ministers unanimous. "Living as I must at No. 10 Downing St.," he said, "I have to keep four servants more than if I lived in my own home at Hampstead...
...Surgeon General Hugh Simon Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service; Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re-search Council of Great Britain; Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of the Royal Society: Dr. James Ramsay Hunt, Columbia's professor of neurology; President William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association: Dr. Alfred Stengel, Pennsylvania's professor of medicine: Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, Leland Stanford's director of food research; Johns Hopkins' William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. medicine...
Birthday. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of England. Date: Oct. 12. Age: 64. Celebration: tramping in the woods of "Chequers" (country estate of Prime Ministers in Buckinghamshire) with Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia so both might be fit for the opening next day of the Imperial Conference in London...
...intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned as Secretary of State for India some months before the Baldwin Cabinet's overthrow (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), excusing himself for quitting the sinking Conservative ship by brazenly asserting that his scale of luxurious living demanded more than a Cabinet Minister...