Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Abdullah's emissaries and the British had concluded a treaty draft which, the British hoped, would keep Abdullah happy. Its terms promised to continue his military subsidy, cut down (on paper) British rights to use Trans-Jordan as a military base. But the British, fearing a repetition of the painful episode when Iraqi mobs had forced the Iraq government to reject a similar treaty after it had been signed and announced in London, were taking no chances this time. Abdullah's delegation took back only "fairly definite proposals," not a signed treaty. Said...
...Reported, to the American College of Surgeons last September, in a paper written with Dr. Henry P. Deyerle, also of South Carolina Medical College...
...Arizona Times, started as a daily nine months ago by John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, had come a long way. Phoenix' New-Dealing baby, with a circulation of 31,000, was right behind the conservative Gazette, biggest evening paper in the state. But last week the new baby lost one of its parents: John Boettiger resigned as editor and publisher. Mrs. Boettiger took over "full control...
Times staffers had expected the change. In the last few months, while Boettiger has been away "on business," Mrs. Boettiger has practically taken over the job of running the paper. The Times has taken a good deal of running. Despite its fast growth, it is not yet making money, and two months ago it borrowed $200,000 from a bank, to get "an extra margin" of capital. "If we don't meet the payments," said Mrs. Boettiger, "we lose the plant and the newspaper." She doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house...
...staffers confessed to running a downtown office where they took fees for getting publicity into the Times. Several were paid regular retainers by politicians. One reporter was charging $2 a head to Tacomans who wanted their pictures in the paper. Owners Ed and Jim Scripps, grandsons of the late E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, did little in the way of removing temptation by raising wages. Said Ed Scripps: "I didn't know reporters were taking money but things weren't as bad on the Times as they are on other papers on the West Coast...