Max Aitken Quotes
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
Aitken, Max. Speech at 85th Birthday Banquet, 25 May 1964, Dorchester Hotel, London.
Dance halls were wholesome institutions attended by Irish families for recreation. Many of the dance halls were in churches and run by the priests. This quotation illustrates the unusual political power that the Roman Catholic heirarcy exerted in Ireland. Even in such basic local ordinances such as the closing time of dance halls, insteat of a local ordinance or even the clergy asking the government for an ordinance, the archbishop just issued his edict like the Kings of hundreds of years ago. In this case, the other archbishops also issued the edict and without the parliament even considereing the issue, it became the law of the entire country.
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.
