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Majority. Scot MacDonald and his new ministers were preparing last week to rush their financial program through an emergency session of Parliament. The Prime Minister was prepared for an immediate test of strength, a vote of confidence on the first day. No one doubted that he would get it. Despite the organized Laborite opposition, Conservative and Liberal whips guaranteed him a majority of at least...
Sure of himself, Scot MacDonald wrote once more to his constituents in Seaham who had asked him to resign. Said...
Affected Juniors. Always dramatic Scot MacDonald assembled the Junior Ministers of his Labor Cabinet and, trembling with emotion, urged them not to stay by him but to consider their political careers...
National Government. Scot MacDonald having, with the assistance of Liberal and Conservative leaders, solemnly buried his Labor Cabinet, rode to Buckingham Palace last week with his new Ministers to take office as head of what was immediately dubbed the National Government. They were...
...fixed income-bearing investments including municipal bonds were to be taxed 1%. As a "patriotic loan" the 5% Government War loan bonds were to be converted to 4% or 4½%. The total thus saved would be matched by an equivalent cut in Government salaries. There was another rumor. Scot Mac-Donald had an important conference with King George's assistant private secretary, Sir Clive Wigram. It was rumored that a cut in King George's privy purse allowance, which has remained at some $550,000 per year since 1910, was being considered.* Other reported cuts...