Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poison. Day after day the Socialist Le Peuple lit into Leopold. The paper recalled that in November 1940, while a "captive" in his castle, Leopold had run down to Berchtesgaden for tea with Hitler...
...there have been about 2500 Purchase Cards sold in Boston: the nucleus of stores participating has grown from 26 to 42 since March. In short, the main goal of the NSA Purchase Card Committee has been well fulfilled: we have bridged the gap between an idea on paper and an actual system in operation. The job, of course, is not perfect in every aspect, but it provides a firm foundation on which next year's committees can build a bigger and better system, and of course increase the sale of cards...
...basement of the U.S. Embassy in Prague last week, the first issue of a slick-paper, LIFEsize, Czech-language picture magazine lay stacked in neat piles. This month, when the U.S. State Department's Amerika hits newsstands and mailboxes in Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia, traditionally pro-American Czechs will get their first real glimpse of the U.S. since the Iron Curtain fell 15 months...
...first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...
...liberal with a clear anti-Communist record. Crusading Jimmy Wechsler seemed to be just the man. A onetime Nation assistant editor, Wechsler was on the original staff of the late tabloid PM, later its national affairs editor and Washington chief. In 1946, in protest against the paper's editorial Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia, an ex-G.I. and the father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including a biography of John L. Lewis). His credo for the Post: "It was said long ago that the function...