Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against a charge that he had stolen another man's ideas, made a book of them and sold it, the brilliant, hard-drinking Earl of Birkenhead defended himself last week with all the power and crushing erudition of a former Lord High Chancellor, of Britain...
Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...
...good lawyer would, Lord Birkenhead did not at once reply to Scientist Haldane's charges, took time to make a thorough study of his adversary, ended by finding his weak point. Moreover the Earl did not see why he should not make a good thing out of answering the charge of plagiarism. He made a good thing of it last week by selling his 3,000-word answer to the Daily Express which ballyhooed it as "exclusive...
Obviously a man of that sort has no right to charge anybody with plagiarism, and the Earl of Birkenhead was at liberty to hand himself bouquets for writing a work of "pure science." Almost lost amid this sweet-smelling foliage was the passing admission that of course a number of Mr. Haldane's ideas were drawn upon. And was not the fellow handsomely rewarded? Did he not have his name mentioned in the Birkenhead book as one of those to whom the Earl is "indebted...
...Utilities Power & Light Corp., potent Midwest utility holding company. It was Utilities Power & Light which two years ago invaded the British Utility field by securing control of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., which supplies power to London, Birmingham and many another English city and of which the Earl of Birkenhead is chairman. In addition to his duties as utility organizer and promoter, Mr. Clarke has cultivated an interest in Shakespeare to the extent of financing the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society headed by Fritz Leiber and at present playing in Manhattan. The theatres equipment company has been interested chiefly...