Word: brendan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of America. When war closed most of the Continent to us, we continued to supply available subscribers by ship as best we could through the German blockade, and managed to fly a light-weight edition from New York to people like Winston Churchill and his Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, who wanted TIME each week in a hurry...
...Brendan Bracken's Financial News Ltd. owns half the Economist's shares. But Crowther, editor since 1938, answers only to a four-man board of trustees that has met only once in 20 years. In four and a half years, he has increased his small but potent readership from 10,000 to 38,000 (45% of the circulation is outside the United Kingdom). A thousand Americans (out of 4,500 U.S. subscribers) pay $24 a year to get the Economist...
Raised Eyebrows. Once aired in Britain, these black realities stirred up more criticism of Rank. The sober Manchester Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...
Since Rank and associates already had working control of Odeon, the deal was like shifting money from one pocket to another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...
...Brendan Reilly, one of only three Varsity pitchers after Bill Connolly was declared ineligible, ranked fourth in the League in earned runs with an average of 2.25 per game. Jack Wallace was twelfth with 3.89 but had the better won-lost record of the two with 4 and 2. Reilly had 2 wins as against 3 losses...