Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years ago three men sat in a bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue...
...John Abbot (Christian Science Monitor) asked that the society inquire into the activities of the power trust with reference to newspaper ownership and to make a report at its 1930 meeting, by which time more data will be available on the program of the trust, especially that of International Paper Co. This company was named because of its purchase of a dominant interest in the Boston Herald and Traveler, because it manufactures more newsprint than any other company in the world, and because it is a subsidiary of International Paper and Power Co., vigorous participant in New England...
...American correspondent expects any privileges from the government he must cable thousands of words of Soviet propaganda to his paper, and he must be cautious with the news he obtains from other sources...
...correspondent is treated as a guest of the government and just so long as he acts as an agent for the Soviet Regime he is tolerated. When he presumes to act as an agent for the paper which employs him, maintains his office, pays his expenses and pays his cable charges, when he attempts to be faithful with his readers, he is persona non grata. If he does not correct his course at official suggestion he is invited to leave the country. In the future all our reports from Russia will come from agents sent to the country on special...
...bluffed, even by the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The only practicable means of getting out Soviet news is that employed by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past the censor all the news of Russia that really matters...