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...Viscountess Snowden of Ickornshaw, speechmaking, even by radio, is no novelty. Back in 1905 when she was the clever, young, pretty wife of a struggling Socialist journalist named Philip Snowden, she was very busy speechmaking for Women's Suffrage and Temperance. Today Lady Snowden is a governor of the British Broadcasting Corp., patroness of opera and theatre, a justice of peace herself, a valiant opponent of Bolshevism. To the U. S. last week she spoke, over a transatlantic hookup, on another subject which has occupied much of her time: Religion. Lady Snowden is a Primitive Methodist, former Sunday School...
Next September is to be consummated the union, planned in 1913 and ratified last year, of Great Britain's three largest Methodist branches; Wesleyan, Primitive and United. Last week Lady Snowden pointed out that in the united church will be 1,241,303 church members, 5,234 ministers, 2,800 church buildings, $400,000,000 worth of property. Methodism, said she, stands for evangelism, social work, salvation. "The union of British Methodism will give a new emphasis to the great spiritual experiences to which Methodism has testified from the beginning, ever since the experience of John Wesley which came...
Speaking as usual without effort or gestures, Mr. Chamberlain took his time, began with a tribute to his famed predecessor Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, a choleric Free Trader who attacks the present Chancellor's tariff policies on any & every occasion. With the Olympian condescension of a Chamberlain, the new Chancellor declared last week: "Lord Snowden's last budget is a model example of secure but sound and sane finance. We are now £9,000,000 better off than Lord Snowden anticipated...
...respect Chancellor Snowden erred conspicuously last year, overestimated by £18,000,000 the revenue from estate duties. To this error (resulting from the fact that an unusually small number of rich men died during the year) Chancellor Chamberlain alluded by making the only joke in his budget speech. "I am reminded," said he stroking his mustache, "of that story concerning the Peninsular War, the story of the General who saw his troops hesitate to charge and encouraged them by exclaiming, 'You don't want to live forever...
...from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their...