Word: aitken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether he won them over to his viewpoint is a question that will be answered only in future Canadian foreign-policy decisions and debates. But there was no doubt that John Foster Dulles personally had made a good impression on Canadian leaders. The reaction of Toronto Conservative M.P. Margaret Aitken was typical: "I don't necessarily agree with his point of view, but it was immensely reassuring to know that the U.S. has men of that intellectual caliber...
...Aitken Bible, first English-language Bible to be printed in America, published in Philadelphia in 1782, endorsed by the Continental Congress...
Fleet Streeters guessed that the aging (75), still energetic Beaver was simply arranging his estate to reduce the inheritance tax. He would actually keep control of the papers through stock held by his ' son. Max Aitken, 44, and as chairman of the new Beaverbrook Foundation. Said the London Daily Mirror's William ("Cassandra") Connor: "Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...