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...promised to find work for virtually all of Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed-and this without increasing taxes! Though the speech was branded at once as pure demagogy by disinterested editors throughout the U.S. and Europe, the London stock exchange figures coldly suggested, last week, that Welsh David had made a big killing of prospective votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Much for Lloyd George? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...really one wing of the intricate collection of buildings that make up St. James's Palace. He had been expected to motor to Buckingham Palace and ride back in the state coach. Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House to St. James's proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Cocky as always, the little Welsh David chose to speak on St. David's Day, in a hall decked with crisp Welsh jonquils. "Stanley Baldwin reminds me," he chirped, "of a driver who finds his cart stuck in a rut and sits there smoking his pipe, saying 'Leave it to the horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...willing and an honest Englishman, one Mr. Crick, has been driven nearly distracted during the past six months, trying to serve as postmaster in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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