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Word: snappers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rising in the House of Commons with an injured air, Snapper Oswald said that he had just felt obliged "as a Socialist" to resign his (minor) Cabinet post: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He could no longer stomach the Government's "muddling methods" in dealing with Britain's great problem of the day: unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Totters | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...final snapper to their side of the argument, the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, prepared to close their case this week before the Judicial Committee with such professional advocates of Prohibition as Clarence True Wilson, lobbyist for the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, and Dr. Francis Scott McBride. lobbyist for the Anti-Saloon League of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dry Rebuttals | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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