Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George roused a Derbyshire audience by roaring: "I have seen the white feather embroidered across the Union Jack! I am one of many millions in this land who are humiliated by the spectacle...
...physician who pulled George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
Last fortnight another of the promises sprayed about by British diplomats in 1917 came home to roost when Britain's Wartime Minister David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons: "The Balfour Declaration [for a British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that...
...Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years they perfectly complemented each other. UP's President Howard might be in London getting the historic 1916 "knockout" interview from David Lloyd George, or in Brest getting the equally historic false Armistice report from Admiral Wilson. UP's Vice President & General Manager Hawkins kept his two big, reliable feet on the ground at headquarters in Manhattan, saw that all the bases were scrupulously and soundly tagged as UP steadily expanded from...
Never kudized have been Frank Lloyd Wright, Felix Frankfurter, George Soule, H. L. Mencken, Heywood Broun, Carl Van Doren. Members of the U. S. Senate might be considered prime material, but among unhonored Senators are Nebraska's George Norris, Wisconsin's Robert Marion La Follette Jr., Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis got his last honorary degree...