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...Joseph P. Kennedy made his first appearance on TIME's cover July 22, 1935. TIME's only rule in selection of cover subjects is newsworthiness. Thus, George V and Stanley Baldwin have in twelve years each appeared five times. Four-timers are Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Ramsay MacDonald. Typical of the 15 three-timers are Pope Pius XI, General Chiang Kaishek. Two-timers number 56, include Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, Carter Glass, Huey Long, Helen Wills...
Normally genial, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury smelled "corruption" in the fact that James Ramsay Mac-Donald, although no longer Prime Minister, continues to draw ?2,000 ($10,000) yearly in the sinecure of Lord President of the Council while his son Malcolm, as Colonial Secretary, draws ?,.000 ($25,000). Roared Old George: "If any local council had taken two of its members and given them relatively these same positions there would have been an instant uproar in Parliament and Prime Minister MacDonald would have protested as loudly as anyone...
...Mercilessly heckled the new Secretary for Colonies, intellectual Malcolm MacDonald, son of demoted James Ramsay MacDonald who now holds the sinecure Lord President of the Council. Young Mr. MacDonald was saddled last week with the thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...only Laborites and Liberals but also Conservative henchmen of the Prime Minister broke away to heap their wrath at popular Stanley Baldwin's latest bumble upon unpopular Ramsay MacDonald's luckless son Malcolm. Stormed Conservative M.P. Sir Arnold Wilson: "Was His Majesty's pleasure on this subject ascertained...
Australia's MacDonald. If Englishmen were not so ignorant of Australia, they might point out that James Ramsay MacDonald's desertion of the Labor Party which had made him Prime Minister and his formation of a National Government was exactly paralleled in Australia by Premier Lyons. Neither the Scot nor the Tasmanian was ever a true toiler in the Marxian sense. Both got their start as schoolteachers. And of Ramsay MacDonald it might have been said, as one of Joe Lyons' admiring biographers has frankly said of him, that "when it came to politics he stood for the Labor cause...