Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personnel of the Oxford team was made known last night. It will consist of H. J. S. Wedderburn, of Balliol College, R. H. Bernays, of Worcester College, and H. V. Lloyd-Jones, of Jesus College. Lloyd-Jones is at present president of the Oxford Union, which is the historic training school for the House of Commons, while the other two members of the invading team are both ex-presidents of the Union...
...Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building to be occupied by Lloyd's,* the world-famed insurance company and underwriters. Before laying the stone, the King said in the course of a speech: "I have been impressed, as everyone must be, by the extraordinary and romantic history of Lloyd's and by its evolution from an ordinary 17th Century coffee house...
...history of the corporation is an embodiment of the highest qualities of British commerce. Lloyd's policy has never been the one-sided pursuit of gain, but a combination of keenness and efficiency in business with a real and deep public spirit...
...Lloyd's was started by one Edward Lloyd, in the 17th Century, in a London coffee house where merchants and sailors used to assemble to discuss voyages and transact business...
...House of Lords. In 1905, he returned to the House of Lords as a Conservative and just as much at his ease as he had been in the bosom of the Liberal Party. He became a stern enemy of Lloyd George's radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King...