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...days of Depression to force the Labor Cabinet to stand by the Party's "Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common cause with the Conservatives and survived Labor's great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties...
Heavyweight: Draw between Gridley Barrows '34 and Snowden (Y). Overtime...
...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...