Word: davids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Said Publisher J. David Stern's excitable Philadelphia Record & New York Post: "There has been a lot of war talk in the papers and we are sorry for it. ... Can't we, in the name of common sense, stop...
...voted the President another $100,000,000 for relief. Mr. Woodrum set out to explore the Workers Alliance of America-WPA, unemployed & reliefers' union which claims 400,000 members, of whom 150,000 pay 10? to $1 monthly dues.* Leaders of the Alliance are shrewd, sharp-nosed President David Lasser and shrewd, sharp-nosed Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. Mr. Woodrum put President Lasser on the stand first...
...young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George began his soth year in Parliament. In their respective countries, Adolf Hitler had nothing but praise, old Lloyd George merely a short respite from criticism...
...immediately after his orations, never waiting to hear lesser orators express themselves. Amateur gardeners near his estate in Churt, Surrey, also grumble that his great fame, not his great flowers, takes so many flower show prizes away from others. But even these complaints are testimony to the fact that David Lloyd George has been one of the foremost men of his time, and that at 76 he is still a fine figure...
When witty, dashing David Lloyd George was elected a Carnarvonshire alderman at 26, an M. P. at 27, he was criticized as being too brash for one so young. At the end of the century, with such mighty trombones as Joe Chamberlain blaring imperialism, he was criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal...