Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep-lined face white as a handkerchief, wizened Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, hoisted himself to his feet and. leaning heavily on his two canes, advanced to the great table in the centre of the House of Commons...
Talking steadily for an hour, icily disregarding interruptions from his former Laborite colleagues on the Opposition bench, Philip Snowden now gave them the staggering figures...
...basic income tax rate was raised to 25%. Coalition Philip Snowden having restored in his 1930-31 budget the 6d lopped off the tax by Conservative Winston Churchill in 1925, last week restored the 6d which Conservative Baldwin cut away in 1923. The tax climbed back to five shillings in the pound. The surtax rate on all incomes over $9,720 has been raised 10% in all brackets. Exemptions have been cut to incomes of only $486 a year for single persons and $729 for childless married...
...audience room they all knelt, with the exception of crippled Philip Snowden who was excused, "kissed hands'" and received the small leather cases containing their seals of office from George V. There was no actual osculation. In spite of the fact that all of these gentlemen had been through this ceremony before, they were warned by a whispering usher in knee breeches merely to bow over the royal fingers...
...leader of the Government in the House of Commons. Liberal Lloyd George was still sick abed and Sir Herbert Samuel represented him in the new group. Meanwhile London soothsayers wagered that as soon as the emergency was passed Stanley Baldwin would become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor were held over among the Laborites. A gaping vacancy was left by "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the Foreign Minister, who could not bring himself to swallow the projected cut in the Dole...