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...resignations of Viscount Snowden and two of his colleagues from the British Nationalist government could hardly have been unexpected after the results of the Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which...
...continue the supply. Further news of the Twelfth: ¶ In London bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed its insolvency on 1) loss of customers killed in the War, 2) the popularity of automobiles, 3) high tariffs, 4) changed social conditions. ¶ In Ickornshaw, Yorkshire, where Viscount Philip Snowden was born, hundreds of jobless men took advantage of their ancient right of free shooting, reaped handsome profits, spoiled the shooting for sportsmen. ¶ At Balmoral the King & Queen were expected this week. In anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers to an intimate, not particularly...
Soon afterward The Hague Conference made Philip Snowden a world figure (TIME, April 19, 1929, et seq.) and "the final settlement of Reparations on a business basis at The Hague" made it possible to sell 96 millions of Germany's obligation to the U. S. public in bonds enthusiastically subscribed above par. This year these so-called "Young Plan Bonds" (German Government 5½s) have sold as low as 24¼ but climbed little by little to 39 fortnight ago and to 49 last week...
...Deplored the secession from the Labor Party last week of its radical left wing the Independent Labor Party, to which Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden belonged when they were radicals. Long close to Communism, the I. L. P. will now move closer...
Frank Martin Snowden, Jr. '32, of Roxbury, has won the $75 Bowdoin Prize in Classics, for a translation into Attic Greek. Honorable mention is given to H. L. Bisbee '32, who gained the prize last year...