Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yuko Hamaguchi, the new Prime Minister, third untitled Prime Minister of Japan,* leader of the Minseito (Liberal party). He is called Shishi ("The Lion") because of his Lloyd-Georgian hair and mustache, his roaring voice, unusual in a Japanese. Actually he looks less like a lion than a quiet, white-headed chow. Not affluent, Shishi has a reputation for the highest integrity. A Liberal, an economist, he is expected to be more flexible and progressive than the Conservative government just fallen. Twice Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi...
...LLOYD C. GIBSON...
...Wholesale adoption of Lloyd George's scheme for a program of public works: (Labor leaders still insist that this scheme was originally theirs, stolen by the Liberal Party.) A new arterial road from London to Aberdeen; a railway ring around London to avoid transporting goods through the city; development of harbors and waterways; extensive draining of marsh lands...
...Politics is increasingly a family affair in England. With Ramsay MacDonald in Downing Street will be his hostess-daughter, Ishbel. Behind him on the Labor government benches will sit his son, Malcolm. With Malcolm, looking across at his overthrown Conservative father, will be Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley. Sharing Lloyd George's balance-of-power on the Liberal benches will be the Welshman's round-faced daughter, Megan, and his son, Major Gwilym...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...