Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speedy attempt to negotiate directly with Smith over Rhodesia's future. They refuse to condemn the white settlers and they even sympathize with their leaders. Fearing that Wilson will delay negotiating with the UDI government until the Rhodesian economy has lapsed into chaos, the Conservatives have sent Selwyn Lloyd to Rhodesia on a "fact-finding" mission. The Tories will capitalize on any indications of submissiveness he may detect. They insist that there must be no question of direct rule by Britain at the time of the rebellion. Rhodesia should be subject to limited white control under a constitution which protects...
Last year he joined with two other millionaire land investors, Bernard Selwyn and Herbert Edwards, both 42, to form Rammco. The company's aim: to make money by letting other investors in on the land boom. The partners buy up huge plots in Southern California, then sell chunks to investors and manage the land for them until its value rises and the owners sell out to other investors. Rammco earns its profit by charging a 10% commission on each transaction, now manages $50 million worth of land...
...Alec's administration after the unseemly struggle for succession to Harold Macmillan's premiership just a year ago. Macleod's job: leading the Tory attack against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec installed Selwyn Lloyd, 60, onetime Foreign Secretary and a highly regarded party stalwart who was sacked by Macmillan as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1961. Lloyd's job: to drill the backbench battalions for the counteroffensive against Labor in the Parliament that opens this week...
...been in politics for 27 of his 60 years, but he had held no Cabinet post before he became Commonwealth Relations Secretary. Though he worked diligently in the Commonwealth job and was also an able leader of the House of Lords before he took over the Foreign Office from Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, few Britons knew his name, and even fewer could pronounce it correctly. Most critics were angered by the fact that the Foreign Secretary would sit in the Lords, sheltered from the heavy fire of Commons debate. His decision was called "the most reckless appointment since the Emperor...
...taken for granted that Macmillan, who had been his own Foreign Secretary when Selwyn Lloyd officially held the job, had picked a colorless yes man. "The Foreign Secretary," pronounced the late Hugh Gaitskell, "is now a puppet...