Word: ramsay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia, conducted him over every ship, gave him a 19-gun salute; 3) as Ramsay MacDonald, to whom he bore resemblance, he infuriated a group of Laborites by delivering an impassioned Tory oration...
...Received back into the House the diffident and bespectacled Secretary of State for Colonies, young Malcolm MacDonald, both he and his father Ramsay MacDonald having now won seats in by-elections after losing out in the general election. MacDonald Senior escorted MacDonald Junior in to take the oath and sign the roll last week amid bedlam from Labor's benches...
Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...
...Having lost his seat in the general election, James Ramsay MacDonald last week won another in a by-election, and the following disclosure was made by Lord Blanesburgh: "Some days before the state opening of Parliament which was canceled owing to Princess Victoria's death, the King summoned MacDonald and said: 'I think it is all wrong that you who have been Prime Minister for so long, merely because you have no seat either in the Lords or the Commons, should not be present at the state opening of Parliament, and accordingly I invite you to attend...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, seeking a safe constituency for the King's silver-haired, silver-tongued friend, arranged for MacDonald to contest a seat representing the Scottish Universities, notwithstanding that as Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sought and failed some years ago to combine the three Scottish Universities' seats into one. Last week the Scottish academicians recognized that Mr. MacDonald is now as Conservative as any man in the Kingdom, sent him to the House of Commons where Conservatives cheered and Laborites jeered. C. Speeded extension of Unemployment...