Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Plans. The North German Lloyd Line is building two liners at Bremen, intended to be the fastest ships afloat. The French Line contemplates a ship larger than its 43,500-ton Ile de France; and the Italian Line is seriously thinking of two of nearly like size...
...private secretary to Field Marshal Lord Haig (then Sir Douglas Haig). At 30 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...
...said, allegedly without much foundation, that he is a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. With equal lack of foundation Dame Rumor has several times had him engaged to Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of the famed War Prime Minister, with whom Sir Philip is still on the friendliest terms, despite the fact that he is a Conservative and Mr. George a Liberal...
...making, coal mining and gas producing, he stood for parliament and won his seat. For most English gentlemen, politics are a duty. For Sir Alfred (he was created baronet in 1910), politics have been a duty and a tool. They gave influence to his affluence. He was one of Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George's War cabinet. Later he was to bolt the Liberal Party, declare himself a Conservative and fret Lloyd George into sneering that he had abandoned the Liberals because "he saw poor prospects...
...Hero Lloyd of Navy won a game against Colgate on a 99-yd. run (1926); Hero Haxall of Princeton holds the field goal record ? 65 yds. from placement, against Yale...