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Snowden's Dole Policy. Since most Labor M. P.'s have promised their constituents more Treasury aid, not less, Mr. Snowden's speech thunderstruck his party with the conviction that it will badly handicap Labor candidates at the next elections. It was Laborite William John Brown who most completely lost his head. "This Socialist Government." he roared, "has neither the guts to govern nor the grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden & Dole | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...still religious, Mme Dzhugashvili?" asked thunderstruck Correspondent Knickerbocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soso was Good' | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Importers of motor cars, who had received absolutely no previous warning, were thunderstruck to read that the Dictator had jumped the Italian duty on their stock in trade more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cessation of Competition | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Thunderstruck, the Communist party's official organ, The Daily Worker, replied in kind: ". . . [it is] the most violently criminal document ever issued by the Church in the course of its long history of crime, outrage and war-making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Mass of Expiation | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...dozen commonplace-seeming men waited simultaneously one morning last week in the several London offices of the world's principal news agencies. Their cards betokened them representatives of an advertising firm. When they were admitted, they laid before thunderstruck news executives a round robin signed by over 100 of the world's most potent financiers, calling upon European nations to remove their tariff hindrances to international trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Roundest Robin | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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