Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainly Great Britain's electoral system is ripe and rotten for reform. Everyone assumed at first last week that Prime Minister MacDonald, by promising this reform, had bought the votes of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George & cohorts, would use them to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill. But prominent Liberals refused to confirm any such bargain. The promise of reform was evidently not a bribe, but a bait...
...utterly fail of fulfillment during the last 30 years that I am inclined to treat the matter as one of expediency purely." This was exactly the way the leaders of all three of Britain's parties treated the issue last week. As a matter of expediency, David Lloyd George came out for neither free trade nor protection in a100-minute speech before the annual conference of his free trade Liberal party at Torquay...
After he left, the meeting became a free trade demonstration, but Mr. Lloyd George is obviously tempted by the vote-getting possibilities of tariff proposals...
Died. John Lloyd Shine. 76, English actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...
...great master but tells some surprising things about him. Says he: Northcliffe supplied most of the ideas for his news papers but his rash expenditures had to be constantly checked by his more businesslike brother (now Viscount Rother-mere). Fyfe thinks Northcliffe made a mistake when he twice refused Lloyd George's offer of a cabinet post, thinks Northcliffe realized it too late when he saw there was no chance of getting the Premiership, thinks the disappointment may have helped addle Northcliffe's brains...