Word: fareham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman, Brother Isidore, Gaumont's president. Their other properties include newspapers, hotels and London hotspots. Balance of power between Fox's 49% and the Ostrer's 49% in the Gaumont holding company was placed for reasons of Empire in the hands of Lord Lee of Fareham...
...Adolph S. Ochs. On April 22, 1921, Mr. Ochs, as the potent publisher of the New York Times, was invited to breakfast at No. 10 Downing St. by Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Afterward he was shown into the office of First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left this conference in a high state of elation, feeling very much complimented to be entrusted with so important and epoch-making a message...