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...British Who's Who 1927 and Europe 1927 (standard international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive...
Onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party, had recovered sufficiently, last week, from his recent illness in Philadelphia to step aboard the Cunarder Berengaria at Manhattan, for the voyage home which would close his U. S. visit (TIME...
...louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...Story* is divided into three parts. The first, situated like the other two in the Hebrides home of English family Ramsay, includes the hours of a summer day from mid-afternoon to bedtime. In it is regarded with an astute and penetrating scrutiny the character of Mrs. Ramsay as reflected in her children, guests, husband...
...last glimpse, ten years later, with Mrs. Ramsay and two of her children dead, the others undertake a last visit to the lighthouse. Like the music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...