Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll, 300 out of 800 newspapers showed pro-New Deal, he said he did not believe it. Sitting in on this press conference was Editor-Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the huge, warmly pro-Roosevelt tabloid New York Daily News. The President said he believed Mr. Patterson's paper was the only one with a large circulation that was for him or the New Deal...
Since the car was sent to grocery and liquor warehouses with no interest in Woolworth paper & pencils, the union accused the Association of San Francisco Distributors of fomenting trouble. The Association retorted that it was seeking a showdown on "quickie" and sympathetic strikes before renewing a number of expired union contracts, had adopted the hot car to see how union-members would behave. Exulted a Distributors' spokesman: "We are now in a position to enforce our right of collective bargaining and we don't intend to give...
When the Connecticut Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should...
...Waiters serving his translucent slices outdoors held them down with their fingertips to keep them from blowing away. Like all films in which Fred Astaire has figured prominently, Carefree is important for its melancholy songs and its brisk, high-spirited dancing. The farce between the dances, however, is sliced paper-thin...
...article on the possibilities of football managing appears elsewhere in this paper, and all the other Freshman sports have managers, because--well, somebody has got to do the dirty work. Seriously, however, the Athletic Association has at least begun to realize that managing can be a profitable, interesting task, if its competitions are more humanely run, Freshman exercise credit is given for this sort of work...