Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some innovator who procures a motorcycle and rides to victory amid envious shouts of "Unfair!" Such an innovator is tall,* big-boned Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, never a seaman but the world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine Engineers. The speech would not have mattered had it not been so very typical...
...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...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
...Daily Mail (Conservative), Daily Mirror (Independent), Eveniff News (Independent...