Word: cowdray
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...jazzy, sensational, easily readable, packed with shrill headlines and vivid pictures from front page to back. Its circulation for the past few years has pressed within 200,000 of the Mail's. The News-Chronicle, a liberal sheet controlled by the Cadbury (chocolate) family and sport-loving Lord Cowdray, customarily ran third. In 1930 the Daily Herald ran a miserable fourth with 350,000. Then along came Odhams Press Ltd., publishers of John Bull, Passing Show and many another successful periodical, and took over the Herald...
...Liberal Daily News (circulation: 600,000) swallowed its last great Liberal competitor, the even huger Daily Chronicle (circulation: 1,000,000), onetime organ of David Lloyd George, onetime employer of Reporters James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Gibbs. Appeared the Daily News & Chronicle, to be administered by five trustees: Lord Cowdray, Henry Tylor Cadbury, Walter Thomas Layton, B. H. Binder, J. C. Akerman...
...most brilliant of these functions was a dinner given by the Kelloggs in their ambassadorial home (Crewe House) to King George and Queen Mary. To this brilliant function, a long line of lords and ladies was invited-the Londonderrys, the Greys, the Oxfords and Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady Astor, Frederick Sterling, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy; Ray Atherton, First Secretary; Boylston A. Deal, special...