Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Continuing in wrathful vein, Lord Beaverbrook took as his text the reputed failure of the London firm of Furness Withy & Co. to purchase the White Star Line for more than ?6,000,000 because the transfer of such a sum to the White Star Line's U. S. owners might have depressed the pound in relation to the dollar. Pointing the moral, Lord Beaverbrook concluded: "The idea of enforcing the return to the gold standard was that we should be able to buy on equal terms in America...
...What reminded Lord Beaverbrook of "a noxious little pest called the jigger...
...tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions...