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...Commons debate was renewed, and savagely, upon the Budget. Tough, veteran Laborites such as the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden-Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924-licked anticipatory chops when they saw that Chancellor Churchill had sent as his deputy, Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel, Financial Secretary of the Treasury...
Snapped crippled Philip Snowden, onetime Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer: ''This plan to abolish all taxes on hundreds of thousands of acres of land ... is perfectly outrageous. ... A monstrosity! . . . The landlords are to be put still further on the dole. . . . Scandalous ! . . ." And Cripple Snowden thumped the floor with his two rubber-tipped canes...
What this means to so zestful a plunger in statescraft as Winston Churchill may be sensed by recalling that eleven months ago the Laborites were tearing his estimates to tatters. At that time the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, the only Laborite ever to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared formally: "I predict that ... the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit...
...Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
George Holburn Snowden, of Bridgeport, Conn., winner of twelve Beaux Arts competitions in sculpture, had submitted a slim, upright, nude, plaster girl, "Flora," playing with her hair...