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Married. Hon. Peter Rudyard Aitken, 22, younger son of Rt. Hon. William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon; and Janet MacNeill, 20, daughter of Professor Murray MacNeill of Dalhousie University (Halifax); in London...
...What a lesson President Roosevelt, the hero of a nation, teaches the rulers of this country!" cried Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "President Roosevelt goes to war against the slump with warlike daring and wartime finance. His budget is in the Armageddon of 1918 class; it reminds you of Russia's Five-Year Plan...
...Montreal last week the fate of Canada's venerable Price Brothers & Co., Ltd. (newsprint) was finally settled. Suffering from the gutted newsprint market, Price Brothers defaulted on its bonds more than a year ago. Britain's potent publisher, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, whose papers used Price newsprint and whose brother Allan Anderson Aitken was a director, tried his hand at reorganization but was blocked by the bondholders. Last April Price slipped into receivership. Other interests including Duke-Price Power (Aluminum Co. of America affiliate) wangled for control. Last week the bondholders committee sold Price Brothers to 55-year...
Victory? In July the smoke of battle lifted enough to permit a survey of positions won and lost. Bull-dogged little Lord Beaverbrook, having forged into the lead, triumphantly shouted that his Express had 2,054,000 daily for the month of June-hugest daily circulation ever recorded! The Herald, which started it all, had clawed past the Mail to a mark of 2,000,000. The Mail in third place had 1,850,000, the News-Chronicle...
...weeks ago Esmond Harmsworth (of the Mail) cabled Lord Beaverbrook, then returning from Africa, that the battle of gifts had broken all bounds of sanity; the Mail would welcome peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve...