Word: bottomley
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...whose memoirs, "Myself Not Least", has just been published by Henry Holt and Company, has many interesting things to relate about his political affiliations with Horatio Bottomley. Among other things, he says of Mr. Bottomley...
...Horatio Bottomley, the wicked Munchausen of British journalism, is in Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. But money he continues to make...
...Bottomley formerly published John Bull, which is more anti-American than Mr. Hearst's newspapers are anti-British. He defrauded the public by huge lotteries. As he went to jail Justice Darling, the wit of criminal trials, is said to have remarked : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy...
...there is an Anglophobe press in this country, there is also an Americophobe press in England, and in some respects they offer a striking parallel. John Bull, British weekly, formerly edited by Horatio Bottomley, is perhaps the best example of the Americophobe demagogophile paper...
...poses, of course, as the great friend of the People. Horatio Bottomley, its notorious editor, led many " patriotic " and " humanitarian " enterprises during the war, and finally went to prison for peculations of their funds. But John Bull goes on with all the devices of American yellow journalism and a few master touches of its own. The contents of its current number includes: " The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (tabloid editorials), "Who Shields the Wicked Woman," " Houses Exchanged for Girls," " Candid Communications " (open letters from John Bull to his friends and enemies), "Human Documents" (an enlarged and unexpurgated version...