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...SNOWDEN, Briand and Stresemann were the "Big Three" at the first Hague Reparations Conference, with SNOWDEN towering in the news because of his unexpected, stubborn demand for a bigger slice of "reparations spongecake" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...last week, when the second Hague Conference met, the new "Big Three" were seen to be CURTIUS, TARDIEU and SNOWDEN, with the courageous, crippled and allegedly crapulous* little Yorkshireman totally missing from headlines because, having bitten off $9,520,000 worth of "spongecake." he has sensibly shut his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...This elegant British adjective, meaning "sick as a result of gross intemperance in eating or drinking," was publicly applied to Mr. Snowden in the House of Commons fortnight ago by his immediate predecessor as Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M. P., onetime Lord Rector Aberdeen University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...greatest Secretary of a Treasury on the Globe is not a male but a female, not Andrew William Mellon, not Philip Snowden, but Mme Vera Yakovleva who last week was appointed Commissar of Finance to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: World's Record Woman | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Whereas Chancellor Snowden is charged with a British budget balancing at only ?741,581,000 ($3,611,499,470), and Secretary Mellon carries on with but $3,643,519,875, the Russian budget in Mme Yakovleva's care balances at the stupendous total of Rubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: World's Record Woman | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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