Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Please make it quite clear that I have not resigned from the Board of Governors of the British Broadcasting Corp.," cried Ethel Snowden last week. "I have been retired. I have been 'axed' if you like, and I don't know...
British gossips thought they knew why. Ethel Snowden, who was not only a Governor of the B. B. C. but is vice-chairman of Covent Garden Opera Syndicate as well, is of course the wife of bitter little Viscount Snowden who resigned from the National Cabinet and broke with his old friend Ramsay MacDonald rather than accept the Ottawa tariff agreements. Appointments to the B. B. C. board are made by King George on recommendations of the Prime Minister. Appointed to Lady Snowden's place was Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, onetime Laborite M. P., who has published an extremely...
...week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain friendly trade relations with Soviet Russia; 4) bar from ever rejoining the Labor party not only James Ramsay MacDonald but also Viscount Snowden, J. H. Thomas and every former Labor M. P. who has voted for the National Government...
Smart Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the orthodox (Free Trade) Liberal Party, fired an effective broadside of cod-liver oil last week at the MacDonald-Baldwin National Government from which he and Lord Snowden resigned on the tariff issue...
Wrong, All Wrong! Because people never take very seriously a man who is frankly fuming with rage, Viscount Snowden's charges and resignation might have been ignored last week, had not the Cabinet's orthodox Liberal pontiff, Sir Herbert Samuel, simultaneously resigned as Home Secretary, together with nine other Government Liberals. These ranged from stuffy Sir Archibald Sinclair who resigned as Secretary of State for Scotland, to brilliant Lord Lothian (the onetime Philip Kerr) who as Under-Secretary of State for India has been the Cabinet's brains in that quarter. (So indispensable was Lord Lothian found...