Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...
...Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling...
...Lloyd George crossed the Equator and was rousingly ducked in consequence by "Father Neptune." Miss Megan Lloyd George confided to ship companions that she plans to stand for Parliament on returning to England...
...Chancellor Wilhelm Marx is founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than is Dr. Stresemann in his; he works...
...mere society for the better contradiction of the Pope." In vain, for the House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote) was taken. Into the "nays" lobby rushed Conservative Viscounts Astor, Liberal David Lloyd George, Laborite James Henry Thomas (famed "balance wheel of British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords...