Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard it may prove for the politicians to come to an agreement strikingly appeared last week at London, where the Young Plan was mercilessly flayed by David Lloyd George, balance-of-power man in British politics...
...Young Report is such an incredible report," said Mr. Lloyd George addressing Parliament, "that I felt I must have missed something when I first read it. I read it a second and a third time, and was confirmed in my feeling of amazement that it should ever have been presented to the British Treasury as a fair settlement of British claims...
...Welshman often goes off halfcocked, his outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
...General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler for short cuts, he insists on being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General...
STIMMING did not sail on the Bremen. He put President Philip Heineken of the North German Lloyd aboard and saw that the old gentleman was comfortable. Reporters were told that "pressing business detained" the General Director in Germany. But intimates of STIM-MING know that he never crosses the Atlantic on his own ships, always on those of competing lines, studying them, working hard, thinking harder...