Word: landless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign" (as Lord Privy Seal?TIME...
...months been shuttling back and forth between the palefaces on Capitol Hill and the redmen on the reservations, holding solemn pow wows in both places about a new law (TIME, March 12). That law would give them an independent system of courts, buy new land for the landless and, in general, impose upon them added responsibility for their own welfare. Solemnly the Indian chiefs listened to Commissioner Collier. Some rejoiced at his proposals while others objected bitterly. Reactions: Edward Quick Bear (Rosebud Sioux): The old way leads to the end of the trail. We can lose nothing by trying...