Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
...bulletin board of the Arizona Times, a staffer had posted a sign: WELCOME SHERIFF. F.D.R.'s strapping daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger read the notice, grimly marched into her office. It was too nearly true to be funny. Before the Phoenix sheriff got any ideas, Publisher Anna was hoping to sell the Times...
...Anna and her husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...
Last week Anna announced that she had sold the paper, as her "last act" fired 60 employees by registered letter.* At week's end the sale was called off; the minority stockholder, for unexplained reasons, had vetoed the deal. But the paper was still on the block...
...days later, the rival Arizona Republic scooped the Times on the engagement of Anna's daughter Sistie...