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Exterior of Owen Williams ( engineer ) | Owen Williams ' Daily Express Building, London | Daily Express Building in London. The Daily Express was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson.

Pearson sold the title after losing his sight and it was bought in 1916 by the future Lord Beaverbrook.

It was one of the first papers to carry gossip, sports, and women's features, and the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword.

The Russian communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote despatches for the paper following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929.

It moved in 1931 to 120 Fleet Street, a specially commissioned art deco building.

Under Beaverbrook the newspaper achieved a phenomenally high circulation, setting records for newspaper sales several times throughout the 1930s.

Its success was partly due to an aggressive marketing campaign and a vigorous circulation war with other populist newspapers.

Beaverbrook also discovered and encouraged a gifted editor named Arthur Christiansen, who showed an uncommon gift for staying in touch with the interests of the reading public.

The paper also featured Alfred Bestall's Rupert Bear cartoon and satirical cartoons by Carl Giles.

An infamous front page headline of these years was " Judea Declares War on Germany ", published on 24 March 1933.