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...Oswald Mosley James Ramsay MacDonald...
...Luton v. Ramsay-As he grows less and less popular, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is abused and heckled by audiences more and more, but last week at Luton the ruled classes received Orator MacDonald with jeers, catcalls, laughter- far more dangerous than heckling or abuse. Sensing that he had become ridiculous, Scot MacDonald lost his temper and with it his usual audience control. For the first time he failed to win silence and a hearing, left Luton amid cruel mirth...
Churchill v. Baldwin. Not Ramsay MacDonald but Stanley Baldwin is leader of the Conservative Party which dominates the House of Commons, sustains the National Government. By what his friends call "masterly inaction" Mr. Baldwin has kept his Party from splitting internally, the natural and dangerous tendency of any too-great majority. Year after year die-hard Tories led by Winston Churchill have attacked moderate Tory Baldwin for his bumbling virtues, which seem to them defects. Masterly inaction, they say, is going to cost Britain the loss of India, and with India the Empire will be lost. Last year Mr. Churchill...
...second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly...
Reconvened after the holiday recess to hear Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing...