Word: snowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...
There was no struggle in the Prime Minister's conscience, Lord Snowden insists. "He [MacDonald] had always entertained a feeling of something like contempt for trade union leaders," reminisced the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. "His mind, a long time before this crisis arose, had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a 'Council of State.' He set about the formation of a National Government with an enthusiasm which showed the adventure was highly agreeable...
Thus brutally did Lord Snowden reverse the popular belief that for once King George did something of importance, winning over his Prime Minister when the Scotsman came to Buckingham Palace determined to resign. As a matter of fact, according to Lord Snowden, "The day after the National Government was formed he [MacDonald] came into my room in Downing Street in very high spirits. I remarked to him that he would now find himself very popular in strange quarters. He replied gleefully, rubbing his hands, 'Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss...
Since then, according to Lord Snowden, Britain's Conservatives who hold the whip hand of majority over Scot MacDonald have made him their creature to such an extent that: ''They will have no use for him at the next election, except the use that is made of a reformed drunkard at a temperance meeting...
...fact that Their Lordships studiously ignored this outburst of Lord Snowden was taken to mean not that the Prime Minister lacked defenders, but that silence was the best means of glossing over his latest breakdown, which leaves the Lord Privy Seal and Conservative Party Leader Mr. Stanley Baldwin as the Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last...