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What made Harold Sidney Harmsworth Rothermere, 1st Viscount famous?

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He was the financial wizard of the publishing firm headed by his brother Alfred, Viscount Northcliffe . In 1915 he founded the Sunday Pictorial and after his brother's death in 1922 gained control of the vast newspaper empire. Though long friendly to Fascism and a proponent of appeasement in 1938, he wholeheartedly supported the British cause in World War II.

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