RAILWAY CHIEF.
LORD CHURCHILL'S RECORD. LONDON, January 6. Viscount Churchill, who, for 25 years, had been chairman of the' Great Western Railway, and who died on January 3, aged 09, from pneumonia after a brief illness, was known principally to the public as the "diplomatic sifter of the sheep from the goats" at the Royal enclosure at Ascot races. In this connection he has been described as "the social Mussolini, with power comparable only to the Federal Reserve Bank of America, which can do anything it pleases and nobody understands what it is doing." • Viscount Churchill took legal action in 1912 regarding the traffic in tickets for the enclosure when ho found that as much as £80 had been paid for them. A coincidence was that a Great Western engine, named after Viscount Churchill, which was hauling the Pad-dington-Birkenhead express on the night before his death, broke down and another engine was required to complete the journey.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 7
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