Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd's Register of Shipping announced last week the countries which led in shipbuilding in 1925. As usually Britain and Ireland headed the list, having turned out 1,084,633 tons. But the U. S., which had been third the year before, dropped to fourth place in 1925 with only 128,776 tons, and Italy stepped up into third place. The order in which various countries have stood in shipbuilding in recent years...
...Lloyd George's Speech. With the opening of debate in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George took several cracks at the policy of the Conservative Government as announced from the throne. Said he anent the "fair and honest" Anglo-Italian debt settlement: "[As Premier]! was perfectly prepared to cancel inter-Allied debts and the debt of Germany to us, provided the United States was prepared to forego what was owing to her. ... If we had just stood pat, that would have gone through. . . . But it is no use talking about that now. The American debt has been...
...Hannah, only daughter and heiress of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, in the presence of the Prince of Wales and many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
...wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands. . . [to which] I am absolutely and unalterably opposed...
Baptists are poor. They make no pretentions to wealth and power, even though they have occasional Rockefellers and Hardings and Lloyd Georges as life-long adherents to their simple, direct, Bible creed. They give their mites to charities, schools and missions. Their preachers are poorly paid, as are those in general of every creed and religion. Their pastors must work, and willingly, in professions and trades. But their calloused fingers can gently, reverently turn the Bible's pages. Of their donations: "The Northern Baptists seem to be just as stingy [as the Southern...