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...passengers were just finishing a hearty dinner. In London at the same instant most of the political bigwigs of Britain were finishing an even heartier one, the annual Lord Mayor's banquet. Too ill to eat his own was the Reina's most distinguished passenger, James Ramsay MacDonald. At 8:45 he quietly died of heart failure...
...living have been more beloved by their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized...
David Day Wells of Birmingham, alabama, from Ramsay High School, lives in Thayer...
...When able 64-year-old Frank Ramsay McNinch was appointed temporary chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last August (TIME, Aug. 30), told to set it in good order, observers who knew McNinch wondered how long it would be before feathers began to fly. Last week they flew. As organized heretofore, the FCC consisted of three principal departments-Telephone, Telegraph and Broadcast, each with its own $7,000-a-year director. In Washington last week, Chairman McNinch announced that henceforth the seven-man commission would function as a single unit. Said he: "It is a cause of regret...
David D. Wells, Birmingham, Alabama--Ramsay High School, Birmingham