Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Botherem [Lord Beaverbrook] stuck more stoutly to it that in the cause of whacking food taxes, basely betrayed by Baldwin, Liberalism, but especially Lloyd George and his chief adherents, should be stanchly supported...
...Press. With 90% of the British Press in the hands of Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook (TiME, Oct. 22), they are possessed of more power to control the fate of the election than any other men. Despite the fact that as a business enterprise they are at one, it became evident that there were some differences in their political views...
...Lord Beaverbrook, in The Daily Express, pronounced himself distinctly favorable to the Liberal Party, whose policy of Commonwealth development (TiME, Nov. 26) apparently appealed to him. Said he: " The Conservatives are only holding back from a cut-throat food policy because their leader is afraid. The Liberals, on the other hand, are advancing slowly toward the conception of imperial preference...
...journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter's success. By the purchase he has now doubled the power of his more famous brother. The second, a self made Canadian, has, since the war, become a well...
This is all very true and concisely expressed. Both Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are distinctly inferior journalists to the late Lord Northcliffe. Lord Rothermere was always identified with the financial arrangements of the Northcliffe Press. At the time Lord Northcliffe, then Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, started his first newspaper venture (Answers), Lord Rothermere, then Harold Harmsworth, was in the Civil Service. He was accounted a brilliant mathematician and his advent to his brother's firm may safely be said to have laid the cornerstone of the Northcliffe fortune. Northcliff e had the journalistic gift and lacked, not business...