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...James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
...Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired man. kept dark-haired Dominions' Secretary Malcolm MacDonald busy making New Year's midnight calls on Lossiemouth neighbors, while his father, snowy-haired Lord President of the Council James Ramsay MacDonald, diplomatically stayed at home visiting with Daughter Sheila. Not present was Daughter Ishbel who did such a rushing business during the weekend at her 300-year-old Plow Inn in High Wycombe (TIME. Dec. 2) that she was obliged to don an apron, help wait on such distinguished guests...
...pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were all there together. Enthused the Daily Mail...
...women who have done most for James Ramsay MacDonald since the deaths of his mother and his wife were recovering in their own ways last week from the shock of his losing his seat in the House of Commons, though he retains a sinecure in the Cabinet (see above...
...electioneering he cared to hear from broadcasts. In the famed "depressed areas" of Britain, where grinding poverty stalks and almost nobody has a radio, local candidates got all too much attention from the enraged but helpless proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Dominions Secretary. At the famed waxworks of Madame Tussaud, where...