Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to The Daily Express, a London newspaper owned by Lord Beaverbrook (former William Maxwell Aitken, a Canadian), strong pressure is being exerted on the British Government to appoint Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty Governor General of Canada when Lord Byng retires next year. Failing him, Field Marshal Lord Haig is suggested...
...Evening Standard, Beaverbrook journal, printed the story of MacDonald's lifelong friendship with Sir Alexander Grant, Chairman of the biscuit company. Grant's father and Mac-Donald's uncle had been fellow guards on the Highland Railway and the two boys had to a certain extent grown up together. The Standard also pointed out that Grant had only recently received a baronetcy. The implication was that the Premier had sold Grant a baronetcy...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-Lord Beaverbrook, British newspaper owner; Rufus C. Dawes, candidate's brother; three Portuguese round-the-world fliers who met disaster in China...
...Lord Beaverbrook's opinion of an American newspaper...
...Lord Beaverbrook, who with Lord Rothermere comprises the heavenly and omnipotent twins of British journalism, passed through Manhattan en route to his Canadian home. He was caught in passage by a reporter of The New York Times, who elicited this declaration from him: "The New York Times has set a standard far ahead of that maintained by publications of a similar character in Great Britain. I regard it as the greatest newspaper in the world. If it wields a great influence at home and abroad it is perhaps because The New York Times never pontificates...