Word: aitken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business and then "retired" to enjoy the sport of maneuvering himself into the peerage...
...Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic (Independent) and dabbles much in provincial newspapers...
...Right Honorable William Maxwell Aitken, well known as Lord Beaverbrook, notorious as "the Hearst of England," blatant chief proprietor of the London Daily Express, etc., enlivened the pages of that raucous news organ last week with an attack on Britain's resumption of the gold standard (TIME...
...Player and team Average per game E. R. Criss, Law 2 13.8 J. F. Sterling, Business 1 10.8 W. B. Hobbs, Law 1 10.6 Benjamin Tannebaum, Law 3 10.2 J. N. Brugler, Business 1 9.5 Floyd Anderson, Law II 8.4 P. M. Aitken, Law 3 8.3 E. B. Graves, Arts and Sciences...
...members of the seven teams, 25 men played on college or university teams before coming to Harvard. The high-scorers in the League are; Criss, Law II; Tannenbaum. Law III; Bognssium, Law I; Aitken...