Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with much interest this week both your review and that of Editor & Publisher on the "new jump gadgets" "invented" by Col. Lloyd Collis and now being tried out by the New York Evening Post (TIME, March...
Reading his newspaper at the Columbia University Club in Manhattan where he resides, white-thatched Col. Lloyd Collis used to snort with annoyance every time he encountered a front page story "jumped" (continued) to an inside page. By the time he could find the continued part, his train of thought would have snapped. A civil engineer, a city planner, a man of action decorated by the U. S. and the City of Bordeaux for War service, Col. Collis took corrective steps. For three months he grappled with the problem; then he marched to his good friend Editor Julian Starkweather Mason...
...style, but the book is provokingly stimulating to discussion of it. There are chapters on the history of the new development, functionalism, and the principles of the new style, while there are also discussions as well as photographs of the work of such well known men as Frank Lloyd, Oud, Walter Gropius, Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, and others of all countries...
Claimant to the honor of having thought of the block-aid plan was not Wilton Lloyd-Smith, but an automobile accessory dealer of Buffalo, N. Y. named David Pasternak. To Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror Mr. Pasternak last month submitted proof that he had inaugurated the idea in November 1930. Buffalo's plan gives the head of one destitute family in each block $15 per week for removing snow, sweeping sidewalks, clipping lawns. Among the 40 other cities where Block-Aid is now in practice are Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, N. Y., Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland...
Most famed Welshman is David Lloyd George. He, potent David though he was unable to persuade His Majesty's Office of Works to issue an order permitting Dragon flying on St. David's day. Commenting on David Lloyd George's failure, the Manchester Guardian said, "At the Office of Works they should fly their own flag, consisting of streamers of red tape...