Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read a scathing speech delivered by Viscount Grey of Fallodon at a banquet of Asquithian Liberals, in which their total rupture with the Lloyd George Liberal faction (TIME, Oct. 25) was reaffirmed...
...David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...
...whose sole preoccupations are profit and power there exists a mere pair of newspapers whose editors can call their souls their own. The onetime (1921-26) Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Reading, has recently sought to enlarge this number by his purchase of the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) from Lloyd George control; but the "old guard" actually consists of only the Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism. King George has been pleased to convey...
...Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official information. Parliament, however, acquitted me of all stigma and let the others off as having been merely 'indiscreet.' "In 1914 I was honored with the Grand Cross...
...mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival, in districts beyond New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore, of styles in architecture and decoration which, once indigenous, were successively entombed by the brownstone, red-plush, cupola, stucco, Frank Lloyd Wright and Grand Rapids eras...