Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...