Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...else, because I'm sure we will win if we get that" were the words of "Chief" De Valera, radical leader in Ireland, in an interview at the Copley Plaza last night. The chief is visiting the United States to collect money enabling him to found an unprejudiced daily paper in Ireland. He talked English with a strong Irish accent as he put forth the main purpose for his short visit to America...
...Valera pointed out that it was necessary to obtain a million dollars in advance to enable them to found the paper. One half of this amount is to be raised in the United States. Massachusetts is expected to contribute $75,000: this money is being raised by contributions in shares of $500 each...
...George Arthur Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan,† was at Buffalo when he told a group of Presbyterian ministers how he evaded the enticements of his morning paper. He always read it standing up and so remained always aware that he must spend no time on drivel no matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against...
Died. George Mason LaMonte, 64, Chairman of Board of Prudential Insurance Co., paper manufacturer, famed philanthropist, Democratic candidate (1918) for U. S. Senate from New Jersey; of heart disease, in Manhattan...
...first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...