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...Public Favorite was David Lloyd George; No. 2, Winston Churchill; No. 3, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, tireless, hard-driving master of the Express...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
...George Lansbury, Laborite Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
Divorced. Mrs. Janet Gladys Campbell, daughter of William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper tycoon; and Ian Douglas Campbell, cousin and heir presumptive of Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll; in London...
...over only the half square mile known as The City. Snug in the knowledge that Labor had never yet won a city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily Express screamed: SHALL THE HOOLIGANS GOVERN LONDON? Meanwhile the leader of the London Labor Party, Herbert Morrison, was fighting the campaign of his life. When the votes were counted, Labor had swept whole boroughs from under the Tories...