Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign" (as Lord Privy Seal?TIME...
...list was even more imposing. It included that lofty philosopher Lord Balfour, that glittering such Lord Curzon, and also Lord Kinnaird (President of the Y. M. C. A.). three bishops, and Dean Ingo of St.Paul's. It was in that same year that Socialist Philip Snowden spoke in Parliament; "It would be impossible to throw a stone on the benches opposite without hitting a member who is a shareholder in one or other of these firms...
Arthur Wingate Todd '35 was elected chairman of the Lowell House Committee last night, it was announced by George H. Damon '34, former chairman of the committee. Wilton Snowden Burton '36 was elected secretary, and George Thom was Skinner '36 will take over the duties of the treasurer...
...days of Depression to force the Labor Cabinet to stand by the Party's "Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against him were the three Laborites who finally made common cause with the Conservatives and survived Labor's great fall in 1931: MacDonald, Philip Snowden and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. The two factions in the Cabinet split wide on Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley's plan to break unemployment by huge public works plans. Old George was for it; the Three against it. They split wider on unemployment insurance payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties...
Heavyweight: Draw between Gridley Barrows '34 and Snowden (Y). Overtime...