Word: beaverman
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When Lord Beaverbrook made greying, ascetic-looking Herbert Gunn the editor of his London Evening Standard in 1945, his instructions were brief: jack up the circulation, lift it from 600,000 to at least 1,000,000. An eager Beaverman for 15 years, Editor Gunn brightened up the Standard with new features, improved the news coverage, made the paper more talked about...
...addition to the two Cabinet posts and five other titles he holds, Beaverman Todt was made Inspector General for Water and Power, became in titles as well as in fact one of the most potent men in Germany outside of the Army...
...South, Col. Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign he took $25.000 from the Republican National Committee, set up separate headquarters, herded in Hoovercrats by none too creditable means. He induced Mr. Hoover to speak at Elizabethton, Tenn. and when the Republican nominee broke the Solid South, Col. Mann claimed large credit...
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