Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city of six million people, it's remarkable that you don't see more of it. Why the Graphic? It's a good newspaper to work for, and just because I'm a Dry is no reason why I shouldn't be on a paper that is against Prohibition. That makes it better." No debutante to the headlines is Newsman Upshaw. Seven years ago, just before Christmas, when President Harding called a meeting of Governors, Congressman Upshaw stood up on the House floor and shouted: "If these Governors who put their feet under the President...
When the Federal Trade Commission became interested in the newspaper-buying activities of International Paper & Power Co. last spring, the fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them...
Land Boom. The land boom aftermath consists in the principal of notes, made in boom times, falling due and not being paid. Frozen assets in the shape of uncollectable paper have put many a Florida bank in a tight position...
...fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service is sent an entire newspaper With the first page blank but with many an advertisement printed on the inside pages. Then the editor runs the paper through his presses and prints local news on the blank spaces between the advertisements. Inasmuch as the advertisements in the patent insides are largely for patent medicines and other low-class advertising, the patent insides paper is somewhat looked down upon. Western Newspaper Union supplies some 10,000 papers, some...
...Chamber Fernand Bouisson glanced at the bulky ream of manuscript which Prime Minister Poincare carried and quickly disconnected the system of null warning lights lately installed to speed parliamentary debate (TIME, July 8). The Chamber settled itself for a long session. M. Poincare piled high the sheets of paper in front of him, all written in his own microscopic hand, and poured out a formidable drink of water...