Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week by its great master. A simple date and his reasons for choosing it gave the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin all the scope a political artist needs to run the whole gamut of his virtuosity. The situation: The Prime Minister was about to call a sudden ''snap election" on Nov. 14 because he thinks his government can win more votes on their foreign policy amid Europe's present state of alarm than they possibly could on their domestic record quietly considered...
...snap is a low trick, nonetheless low for being common, and it was the master's task last week to make it appear lofty. Since he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament last week a full year before its term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before...
...time to hold a snap election. The Labor Party split with a loud crack last week when Pacifist Lansbury resigned as Leader, declaring: "I personally cannot see any difference between mass murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between...
Cocktails & Sanctions. Ever since President Woodrow Wilson's ideals congealed into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles...
Bache & Benefits. "We advise against snap judgment in disposing of any good utility stocks . . ." wrote J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers, last week. "It should be recalled that the dissolution of the Standard Oil Co., the American Tobacco Co. and various others by the Government, in the final analysis, showed substantial increases in the value of the securities composing those units." And there were others up & down the land who took an equally cheerful view of the future of utilities. Federal Power Commissioner Basil Manly predicted that, with the air cleared by the passage of the bill, utilities would spend...