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Comment. Philip Snowden (Labor) : ". . . the worst rich man's budget ever presented"; Mr. Churchill has "compassion" for "the poor, overburdened, starving, unemployed supertax payer. . . . So much for this example of protection, pure and simple, by this greatest apostle and protagonist of free trade, a Tory protectionist Chancellor of Exchequer...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, speaking for the Labor Party, referred to the folly of entering into an Air armaments race with France and of spending millions of pounds when the country urgently needed a reduction in taxation. Suggested...
...item in the Home Secretary's estimates moved ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to intense indignation. The item was a matter of about $5,500,000 for a special grant to the Government of Northern Ireland to help defray the expenses of the special constabulary. Mr. Snowden declared that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods...
...Liberals and such noted Laborites as ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, Sidney Webb, William Adamson, J. H. Thomas, voted with the Government...
...Snowden has lost her head because the King happened to have said 'How do you do?' to her, there is still a mass of devoted women in this country determined that the Labor Party shall stand for the ending of all that show and theatrical glitter and tinsel which I saw at the opening of Parliament...