Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commons last week, Winston Churchill parried a thrust at his close association with Publisher Lord Beaverbrook (TIME, April 10). Socialistic Sir Richard Acland, Common Wealth Party leader, sharply asked if the rule which bars Cabinet Ministers from engaging in journalism had been suspended to favor the brash, busy Beaver and his London Daily Express. Said Churchill: "The proprietorship of newspapers has never been held to be journalism in the ordinary sense...
...Cabinet member-in-charge-of-aviation, the U.S. State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, and seven other U.S. and British aviation "experts" talked over a pink-blottered mahogany table in the lime green, fresco-ceilinged conference room of London's ancient Gwydyr House (where The Beaver keeps his office as Lord Privy Seal). On the fifth day, The Beaver issued a vague press statement. So plushily vague was the statement that the dignified New York Times' London Bureau Head Raymond Daniell let fly with a parody of the diplomatic double talk...
...Berle and Lord Beaverbrook had not come to any agreement upon . . . any ... of the specific problems, they had agreed that the appearance of agreement on the basis of an understanding in the future was important enough to justify postponing the decisions until later." Reporters who flocked to a Beaver-Berle press conference the next day felt the same way: one U.S. correspondent was so annoyed that he shouted that the two gentlemen's combined efforts had produced "not a line worth printing," and slammed out of the room...
This was overdrawn. The press conference had produced an admission by The Beaver, usually a tough-minded Empire man, that "we've had to make concessions." The British took pains to describe Mr. Berle as an equally tough U.S. negotiator. Now Mr. Berle told the press: "We've made some concessions, too." The impression was that the following points had been agreed; if so, it meant real progress...
...which soon displaces Miss Lamarr in the warden's affections, Professor Powell gets his love life back into focus. Mr. Craig and the dog make a handsome couple. Miss Lamarr has seldom looked more mouth-watering or seemed more tired of it all. William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery...