Word: beaverbrook
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...much like a .sheep dog is the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., P.C., whilom Prime Minister (1924-29), still Leader of the Conservative Party. Last week Mr. Baldwin began a political dogfight with two of the loudest snarlers in all Britain: the "Press Lords ' Viscount Rothermere and Baron Beaverbrook, famed "Hearsts of England" (TIME Feb. 10). Tooth and nail they are fighting to tear leadership of the Conservative Party from Mr. Baldwin. Major significance was lent to this combat last week when Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald referred officially...
...Three of the most striking cases are: Hearst in America and Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook in England. Mr. Hearst has tried for years to dominate...
Having called Lord Rothermere a blackmailer by implication Mr. Baldwin said that a more preposterous and insolent demand than the Press Lord's "was never made on the leader of any political party " With rising anger he lumped Baron Beaverbrook with Viscount Rothermere shouted. They desire to dictate the policy of a big party, they desire to choose its "leader they desire to become Ministers of the crown...
...Beavermere bang, it was Stanley Baldwin, stodgy leader of the Conservative Par.ty, which is now "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition," a rich man without ideas who has been twice Prime Minister, a man reviled as a blithering, blathering ass less than ten days ago by the then united Beaverbrook and Rothermere press...
...week Mr. Baldwin made a speech. Grotesquely enough he had gathered leading Conservatives in the ballroom of the Hotel Cecil, now in course of being demolished to make way for an office building. In these bizarre circumstances the Conservative leader, who less than a fortnight ago had called the Beaverbrook Empire Free Trade Policy (TIME, Feb. 10) "impossible of realization," now adopted it as his own to the following extent: he promised that if returned to power as Prime Minister he would call an Imperial conference on the question, submit its decision, if any, to a national referendum (a most...