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...that many a West End playboy who had drummed up business at club and race track would have to go to work. > Land sharks were swishing through bombed areas, buying up blitzed property at cut rates in the expectation of resale during postwar reconstruction. Last month Lord John Charles Walsham Reith, Minister of Works and Buildings, complained to the House of Lords about this speculation, called the problem "urgent." The size of the splash (whole blocks were bought at a time) made him think the sharks were big-maybe banks and insurance companies...
...Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...
...find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then the company has become The British Broadcasting Corp., has grown to overwhelming imperial importance. Director-General Reith got a knighthood and now a new $50,000 post as director of Imperial Airways...
Last week, the Government thought they had found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...
Head of this rich, state-protected bureaucracy since its inception has been a shambling, pugnacious, 6-ft. 4-in. Scot named John Charles Walsham Reith. Knighted in 1927, Sir John is monarch of all he surveys in Broadcasting House, the big white B. B. C. building which dominates Portland Place and, in the interests of acoustics, is sealed like a tomb and ventilated like a submarine. So obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that...