Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters of America. There will be scant interest in the question of whether the "Die Hards" will control the Conservative party, nor yet over the Labor program. The average American knows little or nothing of the various British political parties and issues. He will notice only one thing--whether Lloyd George is to return to power, or not. Even in England that is the all-important question--will the Old Man of Wales again be perched on England's shoulders? Most Americans would like to see him back in his old place...
...careful study of the British situation reveals three, or possibly four parties in the field; the Conservatives, the Lloyd-George Liberals, the Independent Liberals, and the Labor Party. The Conservatives advocate a protective tariff, and a conciliatory foreign policy Labor stands for Government control of railroads and mines, and a more steeply-graduated income tax. Both branches of Liberals are betwixt and between. From these parties the British press is unanimous in predicting a greater return of Conservatives and Laborites, than of Lloyd-Georgians; and with this forecast the ex-premier agrees. He has been shaping his policy accordingly...
...event Lloyd George will have a hard fight ahead of him. Most Americans will offer hearty condolences--not because he has a hard fight, for such a thing he has always loved--Americans will condole with him because he could not have been born in the United States. In the case he would probably have had more fights, and even more exciting ones...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, consisting of $125 and a silver medal, for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English" will this year be given for a poem on "The Striker...
...tyrants is over: Constantine is off again, Franz Joseph is dead, Lloyd George has resigned and the Kaiser is married. Only one of the old crew of autocrats is still in full control of his subjects, and that is M. Paul Poiret, ruler of the world's better half. A whim of this foreign autocrat's and the appearance of civilization is changed without a murmur...