Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rothermere, brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, challenged by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to declare himself either for or against the Conservative Party, replied last week by coming out in The Weekly Dispatch in favor of ex-Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Thus has the great British newspaper magnate shifted his support from the Conservative to the Liberal Party...
...latter have not even a dog's chance of winning the next elections, which many think will be held in 1929. At all events, he appears to think that Mr. Baldwin will not be able to win a comfortable working majority. Hence he has decided to back Mr. Lloyd George. That, at any rate, is the way it is summed up in British political circles...
...must be led out of the industrial and economic wilderness at all costs, if agriculture wants action and industry wants action and those who seek peace and retrenchment and a new spirit of creative energy want action, where shall they look for the one big man except to Lloyd George? What other has ever done anything big? What young politician of any party gives promise today of even a tithe of Mr. Lloyd George's proven statesmanship...
...football players who will help to win games. Too bright a hero steals most of the glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard H. Jones (Southern California), T. A, D. Jones (Yale), Capt. L. M. ("Biff") Jones (Army) and Knute...
Onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George was from an early date "a thorn in the King's side." The King had frequently to complain of one of Mr. George's speeches, according to Sir Sidney, and prevailed upon the late Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on one occasion to admonish the little Welshman to "avoid such a tone in future...