Word: seaham
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...official took the notes. Candidate MacDonald seemed to feel that he had proved something, something having to do with the fact that in his Prime Ministry the pound was forced off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). Fighting later in Seaham, his constituency, Candidate MacDonald faced crowds of chalky-faced, peak-nosed miners, some of whom sang insultingly...
...Scot MacDonald left his Conservative and Liberal friends to fight their battles (and his) in informal unity. His own job, as he conceived it, was to get his National Labor Party going, put some 50 candidates in the field, campaign as a National Laborite for re-election in Seaham, his old constituency (TIME...
...Seaham hurried Eldest Daughter Ishbel MacDonald, no candidate herself, to organize her father's campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...
...Seaham's 80 heard Scot MacDonald to the end. They then voted that the Seaham Labor Party will not ask him to stand again for Seaham, still demands his resignation. Amid more women's cheers, the Prime Minister emerged, rode away from Seaham white-lipped, went to bed in a sleeping car bound for London. On the train, Scot MacDonald perused Scotch papers telling of savage riots by Scotland's working class...
...launched into a new series of high-pressure conferences. David Lloyd George, sick and known to oppose an immediate election, was hunted out by Scot MacDonald in his very bedroom. As conviction grew that the Prime Minister had made up his mind to an election, something snapped in the Seaham Labor Party machine. Two Laborite groups broke away, wired the occupant of No. 10 Downing St. that he could stand as their candidate...