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...Between Ramsay MacDonald and his second-born, Malcolm, there early developed a remarkable father-&-son relationship. Young Malcolm, a small, bespectacled, studious man as compared to his ruddy-cheeked handsome father, followed the Elder MacDonald from party to party. Mr. MacDonald was said to have turned down a peerage because he feared it would hurt his son's chances in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Malcolm's Day | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...late George V had great respect for the late James Ramsay MacDonald, Great Britain's first and only Labor Prime Minister. Partly because of this, and partly because he threw over his own party to form Britain's first National Government in 1931, Laborite MacDonald held a Cabinet job in Conservative Governments long after he had lost his following and popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Malcolm's Day | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Williston Club, William H. Fleming and Richard G. Hershey will be counsel, giving the court presentation. Edward J. Duggan, Edward C. Kennelly, Stephen A. Milwid, Joseph P. Ramsay, Daniel F. Sullivan, and Peter B. Wells assisted them on the brief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice Roberts to Preside at Finals Of Ames Contest | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...years ago Franklin Roosevelt plucked pitcher-eared little Frank Ramsay McNinch from the Federal Power Commission to make him chairman of the turbulent Federal Communications Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mopper-Upper | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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