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...struck me lightly with the order paper," said Earl Winterton later of Mr. Simmons. "I most certainly had not provoked this enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Snowden by any allusion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'an insulting dog.' I cannot recollect ever using such a term in relation to a human.* It is quite true that I have since been challenged to a duel, but I decline to say by whom...
...cannonball Protectionist," he began, alluding to obstreperous Conservative Baron Beaverbrook. "Nor am I an acid drop Free Trader," this shot being, of course, for Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...Learned from acrid Chancellor Snowden that in the last six months nobody has accepted his "invitation" to supply the Government with "evidence sustainable in law" that any Soviet produce is being produced by convict or forced labor...
...propose the erection of a tariff wall around the Empire, one effect of which would have been that the Mother Country would have saved the Canadian situation by buying most of Canada's wheat. Devoutly may U. S. farmers give thanks that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden set his little steel-trap jaw against this proposal, forced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to kill it. It was contrary to Mr. Snowden's faith in free trade, a faith which he holds with fierce, fanatical tenacity. It would have been a staggering blow to the already groggy...
Until last week the only important nations not to have subsidized their leading opera companies were Great Britain and the U. S. Last week saw the conversion of Great Britain. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden announced in the House of Commons that the government would give $87,500 annually for the next five years, $25,000 this year, toward the new Covent Garden Opera Company already guaranteed by British Broadcasting Corp. to the extent of $150,000 (TIME, Nov. 24). The reorganized Covent Garden Company will give performances at popular as well as grand-opera prices, in provincial cities...