Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill is generally still held accountable by historians as the master misstrategist behind the Gallipoli debacle (205,000 British casualties). Attlee was determined to vindicate onetime First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill: "If we had had Sir Winston instead of [Prime Minister] Earl Asquith and [Prime Minister David] Lloyd George in the 1914-18 war, he would have saved a million lives. [Gallipoli] was an immortal gamble that did not come off ... Sir Winston . . . had the one strategic idea in the war. He did not believe in throwing away masses of people to be massacred...
Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect...
George Meany's orders to the 40,000-member United Textile Workers of America were tough and terse. To avoid suspension, barked the A.F.L.-C.I.O. president, the textile workers would have to clean house, bounce Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klenert, who, the McClellan committee revealed, had used union funds for a down payment on a house, charged the U.T.W.A. with such expenditures as his wife's brassières and $2,564.65 for 24 My Fair Lady theater parties. The union must also fire President Anthony Valente, whose home also was financed with union money. Last week, with Klenert...
...grey sack suit, the stump of a dead cigar in his hand. Their relationship, long friendly, grew closer during the week (although Ike called him "Harold," Macmillan stuck to "Mr. President"). So it was at other levels, e.g, as between Dulles and Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who, after ten rough days in the U.S., preparing for and participating in the conferences, joked to Dulles: "You know, I've been here long enough to take out my first papers...
...Labor mark of two years ago. Biggest gainers were the third-party Liberals, who entered their first candidate since 1950, polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength reflected simple voter dissatisfaction with both the government's failure to hold down the cost of living and Labor's alternative of selective controls-a petulance more readily indulged in in by-elections than in the decisive general election...