Max Aitken Quotes
He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.
1st Baron Beaverbrook
Maxwell Aitkin Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, British Minister of Information & Newspaper Publisher, Description of David Lloyd George, The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George, 1963
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The chairman of the Public Works Committee doled out committee jobs in his home state. He was asked what these appointees did:
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB, generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.
