Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlikely that Mr. Ford wants to run on a third party ticket, but he may permit a third party Convention just to impress the regular Parties with his strength. Meanwhile Eugene V. Debs, Socialist, declared: " I can think of no man less fitted for the Presidency than Mr. Ford "; Lloyd's of London insured a group of Manhattan business men against Mr. Ford's election in 1924?the premium $38,000, the policy $400,000, odds of 9½ to 100; Henry Ford himself declared: "I'm for President Coolidge if he will enforce the prohibition laws"?an endorsement which...
...politics are apt to fight shy of the genius and select a leader more nearly representative. To enslave that leader in a mass of details which will possibly cause an untimely death is hardly consistent with humanity. Nor can every statesman have the vigour and vitality of Roosevelt and Lloyd George...
...David Lloyd George (in Louisville) : "Papyrus was severely handicapped as a result of his long sea voyage and having to run over a dirt track...
Fourteen thousand " panel" doctors serving 15,000,000 people under the British national health insurance scheme voted to strike Jan. 1 if a cut in their stipend proposed by the Government is ordered. Under the National Insurance Act adopted when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1911, five parties are concerned-insured workingmen, employers, insurance societies, doctors, the Government...
...Charles Dana Gibson: "Newspapers dubbed me 'America's hostess' because I have entertained during the past two years at my home at No. 127 E. 73rd St., Manhattan, Lady Astor, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George...