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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

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Name: William Maxwell Aitken
Variant Name: Beaverbrook, Lord
Birth Date: May 25, 1879
Death Date: June 9, 1964
Place of Birth: Maple, Ontario, Canada
Place of Death: Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman, politician

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Biography of William Maxwell Aitken
996 words, approx. 3 pages
William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook; 1879-1964) was a Canadian businessman and politician who left an indelible mark on politics and journalism on both sides of the Atlantic. Aitken rose to prominence as a merger king in Canada before gravitating...


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Sir William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baronet, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , PC ( May 25 , 1879 – June 9 , 1964 ) was a Canadian – British business tycoon, politician, and writer. Sourced Our cock won't fight. To Winston Churchill during the Abdication...


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Beaverbrook (Of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley), Maxwell Aitken, Lst Baron
109 words, approx. 1 pages
(born May 25, 1879, Maple, Ont., Can.—died June 9, 1964, near Leatherhead, Surrey, Eng.) Canadian-British politician and newspaper proprietor. After making a fortune in Montreal as a financier, he moved to England and became active in politics as...
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Sir William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baronet, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC (May 25, 1879 – June 9, 1964) was a Canadian – British business tycoon, politician, and...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Marcia Beaverbrook
10/31/1994: 812 words, approx. 3 pages
Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, racehorse owner: born Sutton, Surrey 27 July 1909; married 1942 Sir James Dunn Bt (died 1956), 1963 Max, first Baron Beaverbrook (died 1964); died Leatherhead 28 October 1994. In August 1961 a black London taxi approached down the drive of...
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Nieman Reports
Lord Beaverbrook: A Life. (book reviews)
03/22/1993: 785 words, approx. 3 pages
In a 1952 cover story, Newsweek calculated that British press baron Lord Beaverbrook was selling more papers per day--five million--than anyone else in the world. Through the 1950's the circulation of his major newspapers, The Daily Express and Sunday Express, continued to climb....
 


 

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