Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hotels were crowded, but we were able to get one excellent double room with bath at the Eden for two hundred marks a day--a dollar and a half apiece. There were a few remaining scars from military occupancy, and the sheets had apparently been North German Lloyd tablecloths -- otherwise appointments and condition were good. Room service was excellent, and dining room service was excellent, and dining room service approached perfection. The orchestra divided its attention between the lighter classics and "American music"--to wit, jazz,--a condition that seems to be common to France and England as well. Food...
...other hand Lloyd George's motives are harder to understand. Most statement would have waited, not only for a final court decision as to the ownership of Russian gold, but until the Kronstadt matter was finally settled. Yet in the critical condition of home affairs a very good reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing...
...agitators spread the tale that the empire was forced to buy off Russia? What will happen to British influence in Russia if the Bolshevists should fall from power? England's Russian policy has certainly been to play both ends against the middle. But whatever the future may bring forth, Lloyd George will no doubt have a solution and will sign more pacts to straighten matters out. He has been in tight places before, and he, has always been able to dig his way out in a most remarkable fashion...
...fundamental manufactures, substantially 4 percent were union Nor is it irrelevant to call attention at this point to the fact that one of the first acts of the British Ministry, at the out-break of the War, was to negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked the trade unions of Great Britain, who, contrary to our condition dominated the metal trades, to agree with the Government that for the period of the war they would abandon their restrictions, work with non-unionists and admit a dilution of female labor. In other words...
...essentially dominated by New England influence. The jokes about the Adamses, the Lowells and the Cabots, the cod fishball and the bean are not for nothing. A Boston man is, or anyhow always used to be, different form a Kentuckian. One star differs from another in glory: Balfour and Lloyd George, Charles Elliott Norton from Mark Twain...