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...Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1937 was the president of the British League of Nations Union (1 Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 2 the Earl of Bewdley, 3 Sir Thomas Inskip, 4 Walter Runciman, 5 Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw...
Died. Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, 72, famed longtime British Laborite; of a heart attack; in Tilford, Surrey, England. Son of a poor Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay...
Elected to Associate Membership last week were 19 painters, sculptors and architects, among them: John Steuart Curry, Guy Pene du Bois, Reginald Marsh, Frank Mechau Jr., Mario Korbel, Joseph Renier, George Snowden, John Holabird, Dean Everett Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Many of the painters like Curry and Marsh were considered violent radi cals by Academicians eight or ten years ago, but kindly President Jonas Lie has in the three years of his incumbency been striving manfully to have the Academy follow, though belatedly, the times. Last week he explained that these elections were all provisional, would...
...Memphis some 200 trucks were pulled up at the Arkansas end of the Harahan Bridge every morning while their drivers vainly sought pickers in the city. "Farmers are begging for pickers and they are offering them from $1 to $1.25 per 100 pounds picked," exclaimed Agricultural Committee Chairman Robert Snowden of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce appealing to the WPA to send men on relief to the fields...
...claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have...