"Too briefly treated is the story of the paper’s virile early days, when the Controller used to send a retired Irish officer round to the homes of gentlemen with erring wives with the threat that All Would Be Revealed unless a sensible financial understanding between the parties could be arranged. "Suppression money", as it was termed, helped to get John Walter I's Daily Universal Register off the ground. I've always found it a pity that Times editors have become so coy about these beginnings (which Harold Evans does at least refer to), especially now. "What would you pay to get all of Lady Fuddington off page three, sport?" Or as John Walter’s man Finey used to say, pocketing the guineas, "Give me a few more, and by St Patrick I will knock out the brains of anyone in our office who dares ever whisper your name.""
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The Times is a daily morning newspaper published in London. It was founded in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register and took its present title at the beginning of 1788. It has often been regarded as the newspaper taken by the British establishment. It was nicknamed "The Thunderer" for its strident editorialising.
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