Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald last May presented to Parliament a White Paper that Jews angrily attacked as a betrayal of the pledge to maintain a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. The British guaranteed Palestine Arabs a permanent majority position in Palestine, with promises of ultimate independence. Jewish immigration was limited to 75,000 spread over the next five years, after which it will be prohibited...
Since then he has been given almost a free hand with the paper and has instituted what he calls a "streamlined Chronicle." Most of its news is departmentalized, lumped under general headings. Onetime Editor Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only...
...private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick to his job. One of the funny things about Pinky Smith is that he is dazzled by being a newspaperman...
Joint owners of the paper, their interest in it had been confined to 1) how much money it made, 2) how well it did by their friends in society. Paul Smith talked Publisher George Cameron into giving him a little elbow room and the next thing San Francisco knew the Chronicle had defied a shipowners' and merchants' boycott, front-paged a defiant editorial declaring its independence of The Interests...
...spite of Paul Smith's innovations, his brass, and his feverish activity (he will take over any job on the paper, from managing editor to leg man), the morning Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal...