Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Received with complete apathy an announcement by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that, despite the boasted British Treasury surplus, His Majesty's Government chose to welsh on their War-debt payment due the U. S. last week.* Snorted Liberal David Lloyd George: "I should have thought it was not altogether wise to boast to your creditor how much better off you are than he when you have not paid his bill...
Pricked up interest as oldster David Lloyd George announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME...
...Lloyd George in his younger days who saddled Great Britain with the Income Tax Act. Today at 71 he hopes to stump up enough enthusiasm for his New Deal to be called to power in coalition with a Labor Government after the next general election. "Labor will win a big electoral victory," declared Prophet Lloyd George, "but will be unable to govern effectively . . . alone. ... I am ready to co-operate...
Hailed by Nazis as a master stroke, almost the first economic act of the Hitler regime was to bash together those two able rivals, Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd...
Sooner or later spectators at a professional hockey game are probably going to witness a homicide. In the third period of a Manhattan game between the New York Americans and the Boston Bruins last week, the Americans' brash young forward Lloyd ("Dede") Klein collided with the Bruins' 200-lb. center, Nelson Stewart. Annoyed, Klein whacked Stewart with his stick. Furious, Stewart punched Klein's jaw. One of the referees separated the fighters, ordered them off the ice. When the referee turned his back, Stewart raised his stick with both hands and brought it down on Klein...