Word: kemsley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COMMUNISM. The Standard's "proofs" were Strachey quotations, from twelve to 18 years old, expressing a sympathy for Russian Communism that Strachey had long since repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily and 37 other papers, with a combined circulation of 10,000,000). In characteristically milder fashion, the Manchester Guardian also took Publisher Beaverbrook to task for "the Evening Standard's mare's nest about [Strachey]." Last week...