Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...Guffawed at the sallies of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill against Chancellor Snowden. In office Mr. Churchill was famed for "raiding" every fund he could lay his hands on. Mr. Snowden has just raided the British "dollar fund" in Manhattan for $165,000,000 to balance his budget. "I could hardly believe my ears," drawled Mr. Churchill, "when I heard the Chancellor . . . unfold a long series of ... expedients I had devised and practiced...
...There Is No Dole." Officials of the Ministry of Labor insist, despite the charge on little Philip Snowden's budget, that there is no British Dole...
...Ramsay, assisted Philip to his seat, patted him on the back. "I feel better," glowed the Chancellor, "than before I began to speak." Up jumped the newly appointed Conservative fiscal spokesman, Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain (TIME, April 13). Amid Laborite roars of "Where's Churchill?" Conservative Chamberlain congratulated Mr. Snowden warmly, said stiffly that he would reply to the Chancellor's speech at a later date. Grinning, beaming, "Winnie" Churchill (ousted in favor of Mr. Chamberlain) shouldered his way out of the House, pursed his lips at shouts of "Speech, speech...
...City (London's Wall Street) sighed with relief that the Snowden Budget is not more radical, dropped a pious tear for the landed Nobility & Gentry...