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...worst mistake in business was made in 1928, when he tried to buck the Berry brothers, William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
Lord Camrose (William Ewart Berry), who with his brother. Lord Kemsley (James Gomer Berry), has built up an $80,000,000 publishing empire in the last three decades, bought the Morning Post last week for a reported $750,000 (probably less) from a syndicate headed by Sir Percy Bates, board chairman of Cunard-White Star. On Aug. 27 Lord Camrose plans to merge the oldster with his Daily Telegraph. The name Post is likely to be dropped entirely, unless Lord Camrose should decide to launch an Evening Post, a name he had the foresight to register...
...personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish papers...