Word: seaham
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Durham, famed cathedral town, The Flying Scotsman made an unwonted stop. Nearby lies Seaham, the Laborite constituency which Mr. MacDonald still represents in Parliament, though excommunicated from the Party. As everyone knows, Seaham's Laborite Council has demanded that he resign his seat (TIME, Sept. 7). But the Prime Minister returned to sullen Seaham last week, convinced that he could explain and justify his policies, hoping that Seaham would have him for her own again as a Laborite. Repeatedly Scot MacDonald has exclaimed to his new Conservative and Liberal colleagues in the National Government, "If only I had time...
...Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
Sure of himself, Scot MacDonald wrote once more to his constituents in Seaham who had asked him to resign. Said...
Coal Dogs. In a last, great effort to force the coal mine owners of South Wales to accept certain advisory provisions of the Coal Mines Act as though they were binding in law, the Prime Minister declared in a speech at Seaham Harbor...