Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...Jumped to a conclusion that His Majesty's Government have decided to reject the vote-getting New Deal scheme of David Lloyd George to "spend Britain back to Prosperity" (TIME, Dec. 24) when Prime Minister Baldwin sharply condemned the present extravaganza of public works in "a very great country...
...once Mr. Lloyd George sent a note by page to the Prime Minister. For weeks the Welshman has been on pins & needles, hoping to be asked to join the Government which has taken his New Deal seriously enough to ask him to submit it in draft form and to keep this draft secret while the Cabinet considers it. Last week Mr. Lloyd George in his note demanded back his New Deal with full permission to publish it. For answer big, calm English Baldwin crossed the House, sat down on an opposition bench beside the excited little Welshman and asked...
...Grilled First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell concerning newspaper charges by Welsh Has-Been David Lloyd George that His Majesty's Government could have persuaded Realmleader Hitler to write a German pledge to abolish submarines into the exchange of notes in which Britain gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24). Nettled, Sir Bolton admitted that abolition of submarines had been discussed during the negotiations but insisted that the British Government had obtained from the German Government everything Realmleader Hitler was willing to concede. Stenographic records of the parley were then...
Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch...