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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Max the Giant Killer | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 18, 1963 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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