| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Beaverbrook, First Baron |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bea·ver·brook |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  v r-br k |
| DATES: | 1879–1964 |
| VARIANTS: | Originally William Maxwell Aitken. |
| Canadian-born British publisher, financier, and politician. He founded his press empire on the Daily Express (1916) and the Evening Standard (1923), held many cabinet positions during the 1940s, and was a confidant of Winston Churchill.
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