Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gave a rousing reception to big, burly Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., whom Scot MacDonald last week appointed Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Employment in succession to wiry "Jim" Thomas (see above...
...Scot MacDonald told the House that after thorough examination by his Channel Tunnel Committee (TIME, March 24) the Cabinet has finally decided not to build one, although this project has been urged and argued in and out of season for more than 50 years. Reason: fear. The English are still afraid that a sneaking French Army might creep among them in the night. Said Le Matin of Paris, last week, in a jocular editorial: "If the British do not want us to pass under the Channel, we will fly over...
...House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who, by abstaining with 50 Liberals, spared the Government defeat, complained ominously: "Mr. Snowden treats me nowadays as if I were Mr. Churchill!"* (bitterest Snowden foe). An impression grew that Scot MacDonald may be riding for a fall, partly due to Chancellor Snowden's tsaristic way with the Cabinet's friends, partly because Minister-in-Charge-of-Unemployment James Henry Thomas is "up against it" (as he himself said last week), but chiefly because recent by-elections have suggested...
...bantamweight Liberal leader controls the greater part of a batch of votes on which the life of the Cabinet depends.* He demanded that Mr. MacDonald put through a bill giving the Liberal Party representation in parliament proportional to the number of Liberal votes at the next election.? Scot MacDonald said no to the Welshman. Mr. Lloyd George threatened his worst. At just this moment the mouse squeaked...
...startling figure. Heretofore 15 has been the maximum number of Labor rebel votes cast against Mr. MacDonald. Mouse Mosley's squeak nearly doubled, last week, the intraparty opposition to Scot MacDonald. If the Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George had continued their quarrel, the 29 votes would have been enough to more than wreck the Cabinet, but rumors flew that the Liberal leader?changeable as a weathercock? had veered around again to Mr. MacDonald's aid, possibly seduced by some secret political trade unrevealed last week...