Word: snowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding bout of the afternoon will be the Varsity heavyweight match between Gridley Barrows '34 wrestling his last Varsity match and Henry Snowden of Yale, Intercollegiate champion. Last year Snowden threw Barrows in 7 minutes, but the Harvard star has shown better form this year and hopes to revenge the defeat...
...yesterday to select two members for the Lowell House Committee, Charles S. Houston '35 and James W. Tower '35 received a tie vote on the Junior ballot. A second vote to pick one of these men will be held on Tuesday, October 31. The Sophomore member elected was Wilton Snowden Burton '36 of Bronxville, New York...
Publisher Elias and Editor Dunbar fashioned a newspaper precisely to the taste of MacDonald, Philip Snowden and countless middle-readers like them. Moreover, they were quick to learn the tricks of circulation come-ons such as lotteries, crossword puzzle contests with cash prizes. In one year the Laborite Herald jumped from 350,000 to over a million. Last year, it passed the News-Chronicle with more than 1,400,000. The battle was so expensive to all concerned that the Newspaper Proprietors Association called a truce. Free gifts were outlawed. Expenditures on canvassing were limited. Fleet Street settled down...
Eloped. Janet Elizabeth Snowden, 19, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden, sister of Marion Snowden who eloped with Prince Girolamo Rospigliosi (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931); and Prince di Sirignano don Francesco Caravita of Naples, 24; in Manhattan...
...solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though passed, the land tax has never been enforced. Observers thought that the National Government could ride this latest crisis by promising abolition of the land...