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Chore 1. His Majesty must open Parliament. Scot MacDonald brought him his speech, written by the Cabinet. He must say, chiefly, that "my Government" proposes to ask the Parliament to repeal the Trade Union...
Alister is the name of Scot MacDonald's elder son, 31, an architect (TIME, Jan. 16). The Prime Minister's third daughter is Sheila, 18, now a student at Oxford, a potent hockey player, addicted to tramping in bloomers...
Clearly the harassed Scot did not know his own mind on tariffs last week; but he knew how to get a vote of confidence, maintain leadership of the Party. In one purple passage which few if any of his well-wishers could explain, his splendid voice cried thrillingly...
...member of the Royal Commission now examining this phase of the budget proved unsympathetic. "If what you say is so, Sir," he shot back, "may I ask if you could not resume your residence at Hampstead?" Scot MacDonald replied unruffled: "The pressure of affairs of state compels the Prime Minister to live at No. 10.* I am up at 6:30 and rarely go to bed before 10. At 9 in the morning I work with the secretaries' boxes [impressive red morocco affairs: the British statesman's equivalent for a briefcase] and despatches. Then there are all sorts...
Presumably friends support the honest Scot. A "lifelong friend" (Sir Alexander Grant) gave him during his first Prime Ministry a $13,122 Daimler limousine (similar to the King's) plus 30,000 shares of McVitie & Price (biscuits) stock then worth $150,000, "the income to pay for upkeep of the car" (TIME, Sept. 22,1924). Scot MacDonald no longer has Daimler or its endowment, now uses a Vauxhall...