Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scot Scrymgeour's bill was thrown...
...amendment to the act of 1927, which (in reaction to the general strike of 1926) declared any strike or lockout illegal if intended to coerce the Government or intimidate the community. This obviously might be interpreted to make any sympathetic strike illegal. The new bill, personally backed by Scot MacDonald, would make strikes illegal only when their "primary object" was to intimidate the community or coerce the Government...
...possibly will, but Scot MacDonald did not mind. His government had been saved. The day before the fateful vote British newspaper readers were sharply reminded of what might be in store for them if Conservative Stanley Baldwin should return to power. Labor leaders let it be known that Stanley Baldwin's first move would be an imitation of Benito Mussolini-to cut the wages of all Government employes 10% as an example to the country, in the hope that lower wages would lower prices, stimulate trade. (Already employes of the great Midland Bank have received a 10% clip...
Wayward Winnie. Most exciting political move of the week happened outside Parliament. The performer was moon-faced Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, one-time (1924-29) Chancellor of the Exchequer, No. 2 British Conservative, soldier, War correspondent and 100% Tory. Early in the week Stanley Baldwin had given grudging approval of Scot MacDonald's attempt to solve the Indian problem...
...fired barrages of questions, demands to know why such a decision was made at this time, after Italy & France had been drawn into the contest on Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living," but repeated the Government's three objections: 1) it could not afford $400,000;* 2) competition between governments was distasteful; 3) participation fomented jealousies among Royal Air Force pilots. Moreover, he revealed, he had tried...