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...years wry, limping little Philip Snowden and tall, warm-hearted James Ramsay MacDonald were the closest of friends. They broke last year when Free Trader Snowden gagged at the tariffs arising from the Ottawa Conference, and resigned as Lord Privy Seal (TIME, Oct. 10). Now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw. he has been removed to the more peaceful reaches of the House of Lords, but his tongue is as sharp as ever. The Lords of Britain sat up last week to hear the little Viscount, stumping his canes, give his old friend as stinging a tongue-lashing as British reporters could...
...full significance of a man, paralyzed in the prime of life, rising above what to another man might have been an insuperable hindrance and going on to high national destiny. It was of historic interest that one of England's greatest Chancellors of the Exchequer, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, is a cripple. TIME never unduly stressed that circumstance, but TIME never glossed it over. Nor did TIME ignore the interesting fact of Edison's extreme deafness. Of how much greater historic interest is the physical condition of a U. S. President. When he goes to Warm Springs...
...nasty little gnome" and worse when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held out for a few more millions at The Hague Reparations Conference and returned to Great Britain as a national hero (TIME. Sept. 9, 1929). Last week it was this same Philip Snowden, now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, who precipitated the nasty crisis, caused London's Laborite Daily Herald to headline prematurely LORD SNOWDEN WRECKS THE CABINET...
...that remained would mate and continue the supply. Further news of the Twelfth: ¶ In London bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed its insolvency on 1) loss of customers killed in the War, 2) the popularity of automobiles, 3) high tariffs, 4) changed social conditions. ¶ In Ickornshaw, Yorkshire, where Viscount Philip Snowden was born, hundreds of jobless men took advantage of their ancient right of free shooting, reaped handsome profits, spoiled the shooting for sportsmen. ¶ At Balmoral the King & Queen were expected this week. In anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers...
...Viscountess Snowden of Ickornshaw, speechmaking, even by radio, is no novelty. Back in 1905 when she was the clever, young, pretty wife of a struggling Socialist journalist named Philip Snowden, she was very busy speechmaking for Women's Suffrage and Temperance. Today Lady Snowden is a governor of the British Broadcasting Corp., patroness of opera and theatre, a justice of peace herself, a valiant opponent of Bolshevism. To the U. S. last week she spoke, over a transatlantic hookup, on another subject which has occupied much of her time: Religion. Lady Snowden is a Primitive Methodist, former Sunday School...