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...spite of the political fungus that was nurtured by such "statesmen" as Disraeli, Gladstone, Wellington and others who sinned against the light, it was finally cleansed from the British mind by the long and titanic efforts of John Bright, Richard Cobden and others of the Manchester school...
...principles of Richard Cobden had been followed Great Britain would still be celebrating the Golden Age, and if Free Trade and economic equality had been practiced throughout Europe I wonder if World War I and II would have occurred...
...HARRY A. COBDEN...
Most notably, he has seen the break-up of his parents' stale marriage, complete with quarrels, cruelties, grandmotherly interference, his own tortured and split allegiance. He has seen his mother walk out with a hollow, sad character named Charlie Cobden. He and his father have left their dead apartment to live with Uncle Henry and a menagerie of individualistic cousins, and there Gabe has had his first taste of vigorous family living. He has seen his father, who had been a kindly, negligible ghost, take on resonance and certainty. He has seen his hard mother break down and abjectly...
...blatant Anti-Corn Law Association led by Propagandist Richard Cobden so alarmed the Tories that Tory Sir Robert Peel was put in as Prime Minister especially to guard their interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...