Word: bonar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beaverbrook's chosen champion was melancholy Bonar Law, a fellow Canadian who as leader of the Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook...
...Died. Bonar Thompson, 74, Britain's foremost practitioner of the art of soapbox oratory, whose clarion Irish brogue dominated London's Hyde Park Corner for half a century; in London...