Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing St. The little knots grew until Downing Street had to be cleared by police. The crowds overflowed into Whitehall and down to Trafalgar Square. They were anxious but good-humored. Each Cabinet Minister as he arrived was greeted with shouts: "Good Old Snowden!" "There's Jimmy! Gor Blimey...
...Five of the Labor Cabinet met at No. 10 Downing St. last week wryly determined to swallow a bitter pill. They were Prime Minister Ramsay Mac-Donald, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, Secretary of State for the Dominions James Thomas, President of the Board of Trade William Graham. Their bitter pill was the report on national economy presented more than three weeks ago by Sir George Ernest...
Plaisanterie. Of Germany's outstanding short-term loans, about 60% are held in the U. S., about 30% in Britain, only 5% in France. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, made an ingenuous attempt to persuade France to take over a larger proportion than this. Premier Laval could scarcely believe his ears...
Observed pungent Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer: "To ask a British Socialist Government to ... put its funds into solvency is like asking a fish to climb a hill. That is not what he is for; he is not made that way. . . . Lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole . . . is good electioneering...
...shades arose, and as I recalled to memory all the criticisms and scathing censures he lavished upon each of them, I wondered whether I had not perhaps left behind some of my old budget notes and that one of his able secretaries had by mistake put them into Mr. Snowden's red despatch...