Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alone the de-emphasis of Margaret (which caught U.S. headline writers) but the new emphasis on Philip created a stir in Britain. Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express and the Liberal Manchester Guardian, which find few issues to agree upon, both agreed that the regency should be kept "in the line of succession" rather than pass to one who is not in the line, i.e., Princess Margaret should have the regency. There was also a deep undertow of nervousness and grumbling in the starchy back benches of the Tory Party, whose men are properly silent in public and often...
...story was that such a romance was "quite unthinkable." but by last week Britain's press and public were in debate over the most controversial royal romance since that of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. IF THEY WANT TO MARRY, WHY SHOULDN'T THEY? demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, an old champion of Edward's romance. But the austere Church of England Newspaper, shook a stern finger.. Princess Margaret, it warned, "is a dutiful churchwoman who knows what strong views leaders of the church hold in this matter . . . The thought of the religious principle...
...20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front page," said Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need...
...Berlin, United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney expects to leave for Moscow next month on a Russian visa. Correspondent John Gordon of Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express left this week for Moscow. Other agencies and newspapers also have been told unofficially that their correspondents are likely to get visas for Russia...
Such productivity brought Bennett fame, fortune (an annual income in later years of as much as $100,000), a yacht, a grand house in Cadogan Square, a wife, a mistress, and the friendship of such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds...