Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of the Paris Conference: "Mr. Sullivan seemed to be sure-footed and to know his way about the diplomatic crevasses-cool, alert, distinguished and clearheaded. When he lunched with Balfour or Lloyd George his seat appeared to be the head of the table. To such languorous notes as Peace was piping from its drowsy Valerian hillock Mr. Sullivan added a knowing and a star-spanGled obbligato. He was, in fact, closer to what was happening upon the shifty Quai D'Orsay than were several of the involved prime ministers. We met him one afternoon...
Marshall Ayers Best '23, of Evanston, III., is the winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for the best poem by an undergraduate on a subject chosen by a committee of the English department. The subject for this year was "The Striker". Best is class poet of the Senior class and editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, and was recently president of the Advocate...
...Lord President of the Council, Lord Cave as Lord High Chancellor, Mr. Bridgeman as Home Secretary, the Duke of Devonshire as Colonial Secretary, Lord Peel as Secretary for India, Lord Novar as Secretary for Scotland, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery as First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame as President of the Board of Trade, Neville Chamberlain as Minister of Health, Edward F. L. Wood as President of the Board of Education, Sir Robert A. Sanders as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sir Montagu Barlow as Minister of Labor. Baldwin combines the Chancellorship of the Exchequer with...
Before the war, Montenegro was free. Its boundaries were defined: north by Austro-Hungary, south by Albania, east by Serbia, west by the Adriatic. After the war was started to join Montenegro to the newly formed Serb, Croat and Slovene State (Yugo-Slavia). The "Big Four" (Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando, Wilson) decided that a plebiscite should be held. Meanwhile, YugoSlavian troops occupied the territory; the Montenegrin population for the most part fled to the hills. When the plebiscite resulted in a favorable vote for adhesion to Yugo-Slavia, it was held that this result was not the will...
...David Lloyd George: "An officer of the World Alliance for Inter- national Friendship Through the Churches announced that I would go to America to speak before that organization in Philadelphia next November, provided ' internal affairs ' do not keep me at home...