Daily Chronicle was developed by Edward Lloyd out of a local newspaper that had started life as the Clerkenwell News and Domestic Intelligencer, set up as a halfpenny 4-page weekly in 1855.
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22 Facts About Daily Chronicle
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Daily Chronicle's appearance coincided with the expansion of the London suburbs and the commuting by train that went with it.
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Daily Chronicle maintained the local news coverage inherited from the Clerkenwell paper, but this was later dropped.
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Daily Chronicle went on to become editor of the Nation, where he transferred its allegiance to the Labour Party during the war.
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Daily Chronicle resigned in 1923 when John Maynard Keynes, a Liberal, took it over.
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Donald had worked as news editor for the Daily Chronicle but had taken time off journalism to experience an unrelated occupation – promoting a hotel.
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Daily Chronicle was thoughtful and principled, with a firm belief in objective reporting and editorial independence.
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Daily Chronicle misled himself into thinking that Donald was an uncritical supporter, drawing confirmation from Donald's willingness to advise him on the official propaganda effort in 1917 and then to accept an official position – "director of propaganda in neutral countries".
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Daily Chronicle wrote to the new Chief of Staff asking whether it should not be exposed, but received no reply.
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Daily Chronicle was rewarded by a knighthood in 1918 and a peerage in 1921.
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Daily Chronicle was already planning the early general election that was announced immediately after the Armistice .
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Daily Chronicle was the source of the rumour passed on to Donald and Maurice, but this does not indicate whether he was the messenger or equally taken by surprise.
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Daily Chronicle's fall from power marked the end of the Liberal Party as a majority government but that was not apparent at the time.
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Daily Chronicle needed money to back candidates but this time his idea of selling honours was thwarted by the Honours Act 1925.
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Daily Chronicle had a valuable asset in the form of United Newspapers, owner of the Chronicle and other Lloyd publishing interests.
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Daily Chronicle had bought off his fellow investors in 1922 and 1926, presumably at the 1918 valuation or thereabouts.
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Daily Chronicle was granted a 10-year option to buy back the shares if the Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly failed to follow progressive Liberal policies or promoted reactionary or communist views.
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Daily Chronicle was William Harrison, an entrepreneur who had acquired a number of magazines and provincial newspapers.
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Daily Chronicle had gone into paper-making through Inveresk Paper Co and that now owned the former Lloyd newspapers.
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An audit then showed that the Daily Chronicle owed £3m in debt and commitments, had no cash and was suffering a marked loss of sales.
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21.
News Daily Chronicle prospered until 1956 when its opposition to the UK's involvement in the Suez crisis caused it to lose readers.
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Again facing closure, the only offer of help came from Associated Newspapers whose Daily Mail had been the Chronicle's adversary since its launch in 1896.
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