Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard free style--won by James H. Snowden, 2nd (H); second, William E. Chalecki (H); third, Chestnut...
...learned last week that Lloyd's was offering insurance odds of 10-to-1 favoring the Baldwin Government to win Britain's general election Nov. 14. Confident Conservatives were saying at campaign headquarters: "The Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save...
Lashing out at Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the present National Government, Lord Snowden railed: "If they had been firmer before this year, Italy never would have started her Ethiopian conquest. . . . Their policy was lukewarm and wavering. . . . If Sir John Simon had any sense of the pitiable failure he made of the office he held [Foreign Secretary] . . . he would, instead of appearing so much on public platforms nowadays, hide his head in some place of suitable obscurity in the hope that his miserable record would be forgotten...
According to Viscount Snowden, the National Government's present alarums & excursions in Geneva diplomacy are a belated effort to distract the British public from their miserable record. To advise His Majesty to dissolve the House of Commons and order a general election at this time, Viscount Snowden called a "spurious appeal to patriotism, a mean and partisan act." Stoutly he predicted that Britons will not be fooled, that the Conservative majority of the so-called National Government will lose 200 seats...
...word, this Snowden outburst was pathetic. Labor's leaders in Britain are such colorless characters today that for the Party even to flash in the pan last week ghostly Philip Snowden had to rise from his political grave. Reporting on his prophecy, London correspondents canvassed political wiseacres, cabled that the National Government are expected to lose not 200 seats but perhaps 100, which would renew their lease on Power for another five years with an ample majority...