Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried David Lloyd George (Liberal) bristling wittily at Chancellor Churchill: "Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! . . . He [Churchill] is robbing the whole twelve Apostles in order to endow Paul. . . . Any such program would constitute an indirect subsidy for the property owning classes [i.e. for the owners of farmlands and producer goods]. . . . The whole proposal is thoroughly vicious...
Henry Ford was in England, dining with Lloyd George and Sir Harry E. Brittain,-* giving away a Ford car here, a Fordson tractor there, visiting farms and factories, stating that he regarded Great Britain as the centre of the Old World. Mrs. Ford was with...
English," he observed at last, "are further ahead here than most Americans realize." Formal entertainment proffered last week to the visiting Motor Man (TIME, April 16, 23) included a luncheon given by David Lloyd George in the Members' Restaurant of the House of Commons. "My goodness!" said Mr. Ford, later, of Mr. George, "how that man can ask questions about America...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...
...Berlin, Frau Koehl joyously celebrated her husband's 40th birthday and packed her prettiest dresses for a swift trip to Manhattan as the guest of the North German Lloyd's Dresden...