Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists of the old Hague Courtbe extended to nominate the World Court judges. Let the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations elect from the nominees. The idea now works smoothly and well. Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert) received, in 1924, the only other Wilson award ever made...
...suit in Chancery over the estate of the late Lord Northcliffe (TIME, Dec. 13) piled up some £8,000 ($39,000) in counsel fees last week, after only eight days of litigation...
...plaintiff, Miss Louise Owen, a dark-eyed graceful woman, for 20 years Lord Northcliffe's secretary, made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
Counsel for Lord Rothermere sought to show last week that his great business acumen had caused the value of the shares to spring from £1,600,000 to some £2,800,000 within six months. On this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising...
...diaries containing a description of a journey in Congo have been put on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The diaries contain not only accounts of the journey, but also maps, profile sections, and travelling directions. An early and much interlined draft of "Lord Jim" is also being exhibited. This draft is scribbled in a commonplace blank book which contains a few extracts in Polish, possibly in his mother's hand...