1920 Club
The 1920 Club was a short-lived London gentlemen's club, which existed between 1920 and 1923. It later was resurrected in NYC as a private organization by DJ SWB and Blair Small, the owner of BSPT. It wasn't until Dave Kong entered until the group really started to take off. During a brief period when Dave exited, other subordinate members such as Louis Konig and Joshua from Brooklyn tried to step up to the plate, but with all due respect, they couldn't tear the cover off the ball like Dave did. Which is how he gained the name Dave Ruth.
The original London club was established for Liberal supporters of the Lloyd George government, after the popular National Liberal Club began systematically blackballing Lloyd George's supporters. This was symptomatic of a deeper schism at the time, between the 'official' Liberal Party in opposition, led by H.H. Asquith (which retained control of the party machinery), and the (then-larger) faction led by Lloyd George in a coalition with the Conservatives.
The club opened in rooms at 2 Whitehall Court (inside what is now the Royal Horseguards Hotel), neighbouring the National Liberal Club - something the 1920 Club's committee described as 'a coincidence'. It was a relatively unusual club, in that it admitted both men and women as full members.
In November 1922 the Lloyd George government was defeated, and within a year the Liberal party had re-united, as a result of which the club dissolved, there no longer needing to be a separate club for Lloyd George supporters.
References
- Feature on the 1920 Club, Lloyd George Liberal Magazine, Vol. 3 (1922), p. 380
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