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Famed English fathers and their sons were the guests of Father Winston Churchill at a coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England...
...United States in two words," declared Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a correspondent of Baron Beaverbrook's enterprising London Daily Express. While the Englishman scribbled, Il Duce continued: "The two words are Prohibition and Lindbergh! . . . Dry America will never find herself. She must go Wet to find herself! In the meantime Europe is drifting toward disaster and Bolshevization...
Allan Anderson Aitken, 42, younger brother of Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, 53) was elected president of Price Brothers & Co. Ltd., 115-year-old Canadian newsprint and pulp firm, succeeding Lieut.-Colonel John Herbert Price, grandson of Founder William Price. Mr. Price was made operating vice president. He resigned from, the directorate, making way for Lord Beaverbrook. These and other changes were thought to mark assumption of the firm's management if not stock-control by Lord Beaverbrook. Significant were Lord Beaverbrook's statements that no mergers or combines were in the offing, that "Price Brothers will...
...route to New Brunswick, Canada, Lord Beaverbrook, London newspaper publisher, paused in Manhattan "to hear the news . . . for New York is now the centre of the world." Said he of Great Britain's War debts to the U. S.: "I wouldn't send you a penny. But you'll get your money, I'm afraid." Of England's faith in the U. S.: "Not one there has the least fear or anxiety over the balances here. No one in the remotest degree credits the suggestion that America is going off the gold standard...
...until he is today a man of merely comfortable means. He was bumbling the Conservative Party down the same hill 22 months ago, his most spectacular mistakes being to have no tariff policy, either for or against, and to have bitterly antagonized Britain's two potent press lords, Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, men of fierce patriotism but as easily enraged as small, spoiled boys. What the Conservative Party needed and what it has had increasingly in recent months has been the cold, hard, managing head of a CHAMBERLAIN?that mighty name from Birmingham...