Word: snowden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...TIME, May 11, 1925. At the time Chancellor Churchill had just re-established the pound on a gold standard, and reimposed the McKenna duties on foreign imports, a reversal of Mr. Snowden's policy, felt by him to advantage chiefly the rich...
...sharp dig because Mr. Snowden's own budget went through with a comfortable surplus...
...Philip Snowden (Laborite Chancellor in 1924): "The proposed betting tax is immoral and would outrage the sacred feelings of a vast number of Britons. ... It would be almost impossible of collection...
...Snowden: "The financial record of France, during the last seven years especially, is one of the most discreditable in the history of national finance...