Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have rung the bell again with the article in your Aug. 15 issue on the Chinese situation as handled in the State Department's white paper. It is clearly written and easily understood. It gives the American public a good idea of the mess China is in, and of our foreign policy, past and present, with the Chiang Kai-shek government...
When the Senators called John back to grill him last week, he turned up with a lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...
...moved it across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...
...Page One box, Managing Editor Parham asked readers what they thought of the experiment. By last week the votes were 10 to i against the new look. Most readers found the headlineless paper dull, couldn't tell big stories from little ones. Complained one subscriber: "You have to read this paper to find out what...