Ramsay MacDonald (Image Source: Wikipedia)
After Stanley Baldwin’s resignation, Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain’s first Labour Government, climaxing 24 years of struggle by the Labour Party. James Ramsay MacDonald was a British politician. In addition, he was the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929–31.
1930: Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
The dwarf planet, Pluto. (Image Source: space.com)
With a surface temperature estimated at approximately -360 Fahrenheit, Pluto was appropriately given the Roman name for the “God of the Underworld” in Greek mythology. On this day in History, Clyde Tombaugh did a photoshoot of Pluto, discovered by Percival Lowell. However, the discovery was publically announced on March 13, 1930 – the anniversary of Lowell’s birth. In addition, William Herschel’s discovery of Uranus was announced.
Dreamland (M, 101mins) Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ½ Like many other residents of Bismark, Eugene Baker (Finn Cole) thought the land was cursed. Having been lured to Texas’ giant plains by the promise of a new life, his family’s dreams had died, along with their crops. It was all too much for his father, who left Eugene and his mother Olivia (
Better Call Saul’s Kerry Condon) when the former was just five. Scrabbling to survive, they were seemingly saved when she married local lawman George Evans (Travis Fimmel). That was before the town suffered 14 dust storms in one year. Then the banks came for their farms.
that s what it s going to take. the money, you know nobody is going to agree to a tax increase. it s not there and we need to desperately. the highway trust fund it was not indexed for inflation. so the 18.5 tax, bause the cost of steel and concrete. we are going to have a longer term vision how we are going to replace this providing every ounce of leverage to get leverage for every dollar that goes into this thing is what i would do. can i just add a quick thing. there is something about the story that i haven t told very well. when you travel abroad and talk to administrators of oth countries, they come around to the fact about how they fund their transportation system and how they envy us because we have a dedicated source of transportation improvements and programs. and thattable dedicated source d so well.orke so the trust fund has turned out to be a marvelous invention, . p. . pay-as-you-go works extremely well for us and other countries envy. it was never intende