Max Aitken Quotes
The British electors will not vote for a man who doesn’t wear a hat.
1st Baron Beaverbrook
Maxwell Aitkin Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, British Minister of Information & Newspaper Publisher, Suggestion to Tom Driberg, 1942, Quoted in Watkins, Brief Lives, 1982
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His opponent was Al Gore Sr. whose wife came up with the idea of placing signs underneath the McKeller signs saying, “Think Some More and Vote For Gore!”
When asked to run for President on the Anti-Mason ticket, the former Chief Magistrate wrote:
He was crying when he said this. He would be elected Prime Minister a decade later.
Bartolo was the most famous legal expert of his day and for many years thereafter as he died at the age of 44—the height of his career. In Italy, Spain and other nations of Europe there were statutes passed that said if there was no precedent in Roman Law, the writings of Bartolo should dictate the law.
“Wets” were opposed to Prohibition while “drys” were in favor. The Ohio legislature ratified the 18th amendment to the Constitution enacting Prohibition, but in a statewide referendum, the people voted against it. The Supreme Court ruled that regardless of the will of the populace, it is only the legislature that could ratify or not ratify a Constitutional amendment passed by Congress.
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.
