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...exactly the way the leaders of all three of Britain's parties treated the issue last week. As a matter of expediency, David Lloyd George came out for neither free trade nor protection in a100-minute speech before the annual conference of his free trade Liberal party at Torquay...
Died. Walter Leaf, 75, chairman of the Westminster Bank (one of the "Big Five" banks); at Torquay, England. Onetime (1919-21) president of the Institute of Bankers, he was also a noted Greek scholar, having translated the Iliad* and other poems. Henry Bell, banker, wrote of him: For while we see Crowns drop from kingly heads, and canker Attack the hereditary tree, Yet there is left one Leaf to be At once a Poet and a Banker...