Word: plumstead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boomerangs." The Lords cheered when Baron Snell of Plumstead, a Labor peer, once a stable groom, scathingly denounced "this tribute to Hitler," but Lord Darnley's proposal was warmly seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole...
...House of Lords, Labor's Spokesman Lord Snell of Plumstead sounded the same challenge: "Conferences should become the habit. We should include Germany and Russia-all countries willing to work for Peace...
...Council to fulfill campaign pledges. Though he was personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed...
...score of Britishers, led by Sir Herbert Samuel, and including Labor Baron Snell of Plumstead, Sir John Power, Economist Theodor Emanuel Gregory, Cambridge's brilliant Philosopher & Critic Ivor Armstrong Richards...
Henry ("Harry") Snell M. P., a Laborite recently created a Baron, chose last week the jolly title "Lord Snell of Plumstead," was appointed Under-Secretary of State for India...