Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the National Government came into power it was understood that one of its chief duties would be to enact a general tariff. But last week four Cabinet Ministers, free traders all their lives, gagged and refused to swallow the tariff. They were wizened Viscount Snowden, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Donald MacLean and Sir Archibald Sinclair. From a solemn Cabinet at No. 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald emerged with an announcement: Cabinet members who were unable to agree with the majority were at liberty to speak and to vote against the bill in Parliament. The move saved...
Handsome, learned Lord Chancellor Sankey was made a Viscount (only Laborite except Philip Snowden to receive such an honor). A Barony was given to another potent Laborite, Publicist Clifford Allen, Director of the Daily Herald. Lord Allen bears another distinction: he is one of the few peers of Britain ever to have served a jail sentence. During the War he was imprisoned three times as a conscientious objector...
Eloped. Marion Snowden, 21, of Minneapolis, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden (Snowden & McSweeney Co.) ; and Prince Geronimo Rospigliosi, 24, scion of one of Italy's oldest houses; in Rome. Miss Snowden's family, it was reported, made determined efforts to forestall the marriage...
Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Impishly Mr. Churchill, in whose veins flows the blue blood of the House of Marlborough (his cousin is the present Duke), grinned. Impishly low-born Lord Snowden grinned back. It was even scurrilously whispered that these friendly enemies exchanged winks...