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Waiting anxiously and alone in the main committee room, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, sponsor and President of the Conference, paced up and down, clasping and unclasping his slightly rheumatic knuckles. An hour passed. Through the corridors of the Conference Museum, word of the three-man meeting traveled quickly. Delegates from all nations began thinking of returning to their 66 Fatherlands...
...went, until one dull afternoon last week when into the press room in the basement of the Geological Museum walked none other than James Ramsay MacDonald, president of the Conference. To the Press it was an unexpected honor. But Scot MacDonald quickly made it plain that he had come not to honor the Press but to scold it. Calling the reporters around him, Mr. MacDonald wagged his finger at them and began...
...This American, this M. Cox-what do you call him?" European delegates wanted to know. Settling the question Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, President of the Conference, dubbed Mr. Cox, "The Governor."* Promptly he became "Le Gouverneur" to polite but stubborn Frenchmen who made up their minds that M. Cox was not going to chair man the Conference Monetary Committee, first and most important to be formed as 66 nations got down to business last week. France, as the sole Great Power still on the gold standard, felt that her Finance Minister, knife-featured little Georges Bonnet, was the logical...
...across the street set up exuberant catcalls in which they persisted throughout the royal speech. While a translator rendered the King's English into French (and his French into English) blue-helmeted London bobbies chased the catcalling students, achieved a hush amid which snowy-polled Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald rose to keynote as President of the Conference...
...Fools' Day in 1874, went to King Edward's School in Birmingham and to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Second Wrangler (honors man in mathematics), fellow, lecturer, junior dean and tutor. He became an inspirational, evangelical preacher, was made canon of Westminster. In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald had him appointed Bishop of Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent "degenerate religious thought...