Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Low's first published cartoon was printed in a New Zealand paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David...
...Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front door...
...Washington Star, a conservative paper which rarely looks promotion in the face, admired the Post's campaign, made a deal with Publishers Service Inc., a Stern promotion subsidiary to take it over, cleansed completely of its voucher-clipping taint. The Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons...
...George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been contributing to the paper since last September and to hire Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, who was dropped by the World-Telegram in March after he had shown himself too pronounced a liberal for the Scrippsless Scripps-Howard newspaper...
...Patterson had talked to Lord Northcliffe, whose London Daily Mirror, a half-size picture paper, was selling nearly 1,000,000 copies daily. Northcliffe suggested that he try out the tabloid idea in the U. S. Captain Patterson met Colonel McCormick somewhere behind the lines; they dined with some other officers, then stepped outside and seated themselves on the dung heap...