Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such language as has rarely sullied British Parliamentary debate was heard in an angry, tired and sleepy House of Commons last week when crippled but indomitable Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden forced Parliament to sit continuously for 21 hr. 48 min.?at an estimated cost of £250 ($1,215) for unwonted lighting and overtime pay to attendants. From start to finish the grueling debate was a snarling match between Mr. Snowden and his bellicose predecessor as Chancellor, famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill...
Assembling at 2:45 p. m. the House began to debate Clause 17 of Mr. Snowden's budget (TIME, April 21). At 12:30 a. m. that night Mr. Churchill, weary from his hours of onslaught, snarled: "How much longer does the Chancellor of the Exchequer intend to keep this House in session...
With a sly grin, Mr. Snowden accepted the challenge: "We have been in session now nine hours and have finished one clause," said he. "The sitting will continue until we have dealt with nine more clauses, until we reach Clause...
...white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally by party whips to speak a needed word. The whips at last became so frantic as to stir up members slumbering...
...Lloyd George might just as well have said, ". . . as if I were Mrs. Elizabeth Tarratt." Mrs. Tarratt is Chancellor Snowden's 85-year-old next door neighbor in Surrey. When aged Mrs. Tarratt built a fence on property adjoining Mr. Snowden's Eden Lodge, the wizened Chancellor promptly had it chopped down, declared it was on public land. Mrs. Tarratt went to the rural council, received a writ declaring that the land was not public but her very own. Last week she ordered a new, indestructible wire fence erected, dared Mr. Snowden to lay a finger...