Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier David Lloyd George, accompanied by Dame Lloyd George and Miss Megan Lloyd George, arrived in the U. S. for the first time in his life...
Then Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under the Wilson administration, arose to deliver a very able speech of welcome. Mr. Baker recalled the indefatigable energy with which Premier Lloyd George conducted his post during the War. Said he: " Great minds are needed for great matters, and history will always acknowledge the debt of civilization to the fact that England had Lloyd George and France had Clemenceau and Italy had Orlando and the U. S. had Woodrow Wilson at that time...
...good idea of the magnitude of the great man's mind; it was restrained and sober in that it avoided exaggeration and yet paid admirable tribute to a man whose greatness cannot fairly be contested even by his greatest enemies. Adapting what Shakespeare said of Cleopatra to David Lloyd George, Mr. Baker said...
Laying down his cigar Mr. Lloyd George arose. Standing with his pince-nez poised in his left hand and describing himself as a " plain Euro-pean," the ex-Premier said he was a very old journalist-once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined...
...Lloyd-George, although at present a private individual, can still be taken as representative of a large liberal party in England. Newspaper headlines, still proclaim the possibility of his return to power, due to a deep public dissatisfaction with Premier Baldwin's lack of vigor in dealing with the Ruhr situation. And behind this opinion of the ex-premier stands the opinion of Washington as expressed by Secretary Hughes and President Coolidge. As Lloyd-George says: "the plan is not too late for consideration, and it is absolutely the best hope of the settlement of reparations...