Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years wry, limping little Philip Snowden and tall, warm-hearted James Ramsay MacDonald were the closest of friends. They broke last year when Free Trader Snowden gagged at the tariffs arising from the Ottawa Conference, and resigned as Lord Privy Seal (TIME, Oct. 10). Now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw. he has been removed to the more peaceful reaches of the House of Lords, but his tongue is as sharp as ever. The Lords of Britain sat up last week to hear the little Viscount, stumping his canes, give his old friend as stinging a tongue-lashing as British reporters could...
...would suggest to the Cabinet," snapped Lord Snowden, "that they look into the case of the Prime Minister, not only in his own interests but in the interests of the country, for it is a positive danger to the country that its affairs should be in the hands of a man who, every time he speaks, exposes his ignorance or his incapacity...
...members of the Committee selected yesterday are: Thomas Dennie Boardman of Manchester, Wilton Snowden Burton of Bronxville, New York, Alexander Cochrane Cusing of New York City, Donald Frederick Cutler, Jr., of Dover, John Francis Ducey, Jr., of Boston, George Wilfred Harris of West Roxbury, Howard Allen Hoffman of Newark, New Jersey, Alvin Josephy, Jr., of New York City, Francis Keyes of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, William Davis Locke of Concord, Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Charles Eliot Pierce of Milton, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt of Glen Cove, New York, Gardner Edward Prouty, Jr., of Littleton, Joseph Foster Robbins...
...classics, F. M. Snowden, Jr. '32 won a $75 prize for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in J. Bournet's "Greek Philosophy...
...conveys the full significance of a man, paralyzed in the prime of life, rising above what to another man might have been an insuperable hindrance and going on to high national destiny. It was of historic interest that one of England's greatest Chancellors of the Exchequer, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, is a cripple. TIME never unduly stressed that circumstance, but TIME never glossed it over. Nor did TIME ignore the interesting fact of Edison's extreme deafness. Of how much greater historic interest is the physical condition of a U. S. President. When he goes to Warm...