His appointment was made directly on the recommendation of Lord Beaverbrook, who also recommended him as Deputy Minister of that Department at the end of the war.

" Beaverbrook was as much in the dark as anyone, but joked that he " made do with the royalties from Guilty Men ".

On the recommendation of Aneurin Bevan, Foot was soon hired by Lord Beaverbrook to work as a writer on his Evening Standard.

Beside Lord Beaverbrook, whose company Taylor very much enjoyed, his favourite politician was the Labour Party leader Michael Foot, whom he often described as the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had.

In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.

* The Abdication of King Edward VIII by Lord Beaverbrook, ( editor ) 1966.

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.

Lord Copper, the newspaper magnate, has been said to be based on an amalgam of Lord Northcliffe and Lord Beaverbrook: a character so fearsome that his obsequious foreign editor, Mr Salter, can never openly disagree with any statement he makes, answering " Definitely, Lord Copper " and ' Up to a point, Lord Copper " in place of " yes " or " no ".

In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.

In 1938 she met Canadian William Aitken, a nephew of media magnate Lord Beaverbrook, and a journalist at the Evening Standard.

Initially the post was called " Minister of War Production " when it was created in February 1942, but the first Minister, Lord Beaverbrook, resigned after only two weeks in office.

He also employed Max Aitken ( later, Lord Beaverbrook ) at the beginning of Aitken's business career, hiring him in 1902 when he set up Royal Securities, the first investment firm in Eastern Canada.

Beaverbrook and Cohen often met at her house, as noted in her autobiography A Bundle of Time.

* Ackland Art Museum ( University of North Carolina ); Art Gallery of the University of Rochester ( New York ); Art Institute of Chicago ; Beaverbrook Art Gallery ( New Brunswick ); Blanton Museum of Art ( University of Texas at Austin ); Brigham Young University Museum of Art ( Utah ); Carnegie Museum of Art ( Pittsburgh ); Detroit Institute of Arts ; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Robert Hull Fleming Museum ( University of Vermont ); Frick Collection ( New York City ); the Getty Museum ( Los Angeles ); Harvard University Art Museums ; Honolulu Museum of Art ; Huntington Library ( California ); the Kimbell Art Museum ( Fort Worth, Texas ); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York City ); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ( Texas ); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .); Norton Simon Museum ( Pasadena, California ); Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Wadsworth Atheneum ( Hartford, Connecticut ); National Gallery of Canada.

* Lord Beaverbrook, a Week at the Office-About MAP creation in 1940

Among the VIPs who have been guests at the river's fishing lodges include the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, Hubert Humphrey, Ted Williams, Lord Beaverbrook, Bing Crosby, Louis St. Laurent, Maurice Richard, Norman Schwarzkopf, George H. W. Bush, and Brian Mulroney, to name but a few.

The artist went on to paint the portraits of the couple which are now on permanent display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick along with one of Dali's greatest pieces, the " Santiago el Grande.

The famous British newspaper owner and Minister of Aircraft Production during World War II, Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ), moved to Newcastle at an early age and considered it home.

These works are now on permanent display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Lady Beaverbrook died in 1994 having donated the equivalent of nearly $ 300 million ( at today's value ) to support education, cultural undertakings and wildlife preservation.

A lover of animals, among the many philanthropic causes Lady Beaverbrook supported, the established the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island with a $ 2. 2 million gift.

His painting " Approaching Storm " was voted most popular at the 1959 Maritime Art Exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Dunn's art has been exhibited in Europe and North America and can be seen at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the Arts Council Collection in London, and many private collections.

He married Jemma Madeleine Kidd ( born 1974 ), great-granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook, on 4 June 2005 at St James ' Church in Barbados.

Whether the comment is fair, Diplock J ( as Lord Diplock then was ) said in a summing up to jury in Silkin v. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. and Another 1 WLR 743, Tab 5, at 749:

Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, Lady Beaverbrook ( formerly Lady Dunn ) ( July 27, 1909 – October 28, 1994 ) was a philanthropist, an art collector, and racehorse owner.

Oddly, one of the column's greatest opponents was the Express newspaper's owner, Lord Beaverbrook, who had to keep being assured the column was indeed funny.

An important cultural, artistic, and educational centre for the province, Fredericton is home to two universities, the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, and cultural institutions such as the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the York Sunbury Museum, and The Playhouse — a performing arts venue.

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

( Bevan is supposed to have told Beaverbrook on the phone: " I've got a young bloody knight-errant here.

This was the beginning of an improbable but important friendship with Max Aitken, later the industrialist and British press baron, Lord Beaverbrook.

Max Aitken ( later known as Lord Beaverbrook ) was his office boy, while articling as a lawyer, acting as a stringer for the Montreal Gazette, and selling life insurance.

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

This prompted Lord Beaverbrook, as Chancellor, and UNB President Colin B. Mackay, to permanently move the Saint John Law School to the UNB Fredericton campus, despite the Dean's objections.

Both campuses have undergone significant expansion over the years, and many University buildings have received funding from Lord Beaverbrook and other prominent industrialists and philanthropists.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | Lord Beaverbrook served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the university's greatest benefactor.

The most prestigious of these are the Blake-Kirkpatrick, Beaverbrook, and President's scholarships.

* June 9 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born newspaper publisher and politician ( b. 1879 )

* September 29 – WWII: The Moscow Conference begins ; U. S. representative Averill Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent assistance for Russia.

* Lord Beaverbrook buys the Daily Express.

** Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born statesman and newspaper publisher ( d. 1964 )

As Lord Beaverbrook remarked, " There were no signposts to guide Lloyd George.

On the other hand, the Express and Mail newspapers, owned by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, respectively, appeared to support a morganatic marriage.