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Observed pungent Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer: "To ask a British Socialist Government to ... put its funds into solvency is like asking a fish to climb a hill. That is not what he is for; he is not made that way. . . . Lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole . . . is good electioneering...
...tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...Guffawed at the sallies of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill against Chancellor Snowden. In office Mr. Churchill was famed for "raiding" every fund he could lay his hands on. Mr. Snowden has just raided the British "dollar fund" in Manhattan for $165,000,000 to balance his budget. "I could hardly believe my ears," drawled Mr. Churchill, "when I heard the Chancellor . . . unfold a long series of ... expedients I had devised and practiced...
...shades arose, and as I recalled to memory all the criticisms and scathing censures he lavished upon each of them, I wondered whether I had not perhaps left behind some of my old budget notes and that one of his able secretaries had by mistake put them into Mr. Snowden's red despatch...
...There Is No Dole." Officials of the Ministry of Labor insist, despite the charge on little Philip Snowden's budget, that there is no British Dole...