Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...Leaders. While other British weekenders discussed the situation, made bets, offered advice, the three principals spent their weekend conferring with party colleagues. Stanley Baldwin retired to the prime ministerial estate, "Chequers," in Buckinghamshire. Ramsay MacDonald went to Hampstead. David Lloyd George went to his country place in Surrey, chuckling to newsgatherers...
Soon it was learned that Liberal Lloyd George was demanding three things as the price of his supporting either of the big parties...
Theoretically, the Labor party could agree to all these conditions instantly, but personal enmity between Leaders Lloyd George and MacDonald continued to drive Liberals and Conservatives closer together than Liberals and Labor...
...Lloyd George won't beat us?Ramsay won't defeat us?but Apathy might!" was the slogan of a Conservative poster widely displayed through Britain's general elections campaign (TIME, May 27). Last week, as the campaign closed, the word Apathy was repeated again and again by political writers...