MARCONI ENQUIRY.
HOT WORDS IN THE COMMONS [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] (Received 1.35 p.m.) London, April 1. In,the House of Commons, Mr J. R. Kebty Fletcher, Unionist member for Altrinaham, asked Mr Lloyd George whether his salary (£5000) was to prevent him gambling on the stock exchange. The Chancellor hotly replied: “Yon had better say that in a place where it can be tho subject of a prosecution. Then I will meet it as I have met others.” An angry scene followed, Labourites and others calling Fletcher a “dirty snob.” Mr Lloyd George called out “cad.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 6
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98MARCONI ENQUIRY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 6
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