Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of 299 to 234 the House threw out Mr. Baldwin's censure, sustained Scot MacDonald...
Significance. The Prime Minister, having promised nothing in fact, promised so much by implication-and this at a time when the Labor Cabinet has only an unsteady majority in the House of Commons-that observers saw Scot MacDonald plunging neck-deep last week into a morass of good intentions from which he can extricate himself and party only by a display of the highest statesmanship...
Later the Prime Minister's office reprimanded correspondents for their "error in audition," declared that what had sounded to them like "dominion self-government" were the words "freedom in self-government" actually uttered by Scot MacDonald. Fortunately the British censor could prevent the Indian press from printing this slip...
...charge, the MacDonald Government tried to pigeonhole the bill, was suddenly knifed in the back by radical Laborite James Maxton (sworn foe of his Chief) who moved for im mediate action, hoping that the House would vote the pensions against Government protest, thus unseating the Cabinet. Dopesters declared that Scot MacDonald was saved from being ousted as Prime Minister solely by the striking of the hour agreed for adjournment...
...They do not desire the freedom of the city whereby they will defraud the King or this city of any of its rights, customs and privileges. . . . They will pay their Scot, bear their lot, and so they...