Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Last salute to Free Trade came at midnight in the House of Lords from acid Little Lord Snowden...
...London's Covent Garden will have no opera this spring. The British Government has withdrawn the subsidy of £17,600 given last year when Viscount Snowden, husband of music-loving Ethel Annakin Snowden, was Chancellor of the Exchequer...