Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King, Cecil Harmsworth, a press lord seeking to take over an empire...
Rude Blow. Word of the impending Odhams-Thomson deal came as a rude blow to Cecil Harmsworth King, 60, head of the Daily Mirror group, a gigantic newspaper-magazine combine (total circulation: more than 16 million) that includes two of Britain's leading popular papers: the sex-salted Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial, one of three newspapers that the watchdog Press Council last year called "a disgrace to British journalism." The other two: the People and News of the World...
...share above the market price. With Odhams' The People denouncing King's move as an "act of piracy" (see cut), Odhams Chairman Chancellor announced that his board was prepared to hike the stock dividend rate from 25% to 37½%-if the stockholders would reject Cecil King. The announcement sent Odhams shares soaring in value past King...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...
...week's end, Cecil King suddenly raised his ante with a new offer to pay $8.86 per share for Odhams stock - $1.64 more than his original bid, and $1.56 over market. Yet even if this should win King victory in the battle for Odhams, one question remained that only the Royal Commissioners can decide after months, if not years, of exhaustive investigation. It is a question that affects the entire British press...