Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Federal Reserve Bank and the Bank of France loaned Britain $243,000,000. That went too. Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Laborite Prime Minister and headed a coalition cabinet. France and New York arranged $400,000,000 more credit and that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords...
...this crisis, it is to England's advantage that she has a strong constitution that her people are accustomed to going about their business in times of stress and that, in MacDonald and Snowden, she is attended by skillful surgeons...
...ended with a ringing quotation from "England, an Ode," by a resonant rhymester even smaller than Philip Snowden, the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne...
Seethings. Not all Britons took their new burdens as quietly as Chancellor Snowden suggested. Outside the Houses of Parliament little groups collected under their ringleaders shouting in unison "One, two three? HANDS OFF THE DOLE!" and "One, two, three?WE STAND FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, DOWN WITH THE RULING CLASSES!" British bobbies did not charge but nudged them out of the square...
...Bill on its second reading: 310 to 253. Next, it was expected, would come discussion of a tariff. Reported leader of the movement was Liberal Sir John Simon, who had been wavering for many a month. Should a tariff eventuate, first to resign his job would be little Philip Snowden, stout free-trader...