Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Zellerbach, 57, a slight, balding Pacific Coast paper & pulp man (Crown Zellerbach), had bustled into Italy nine months ago, an'EGA chief brimming with vim, vigor and the proverbial vitality of American business. Left-wing Italian newsmen heckled and flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans...
Said Editor Paul T. Busselle, who joined the Times 20 years ago and succeeded Townes: "I guess people are right when they laugh at me for calling it the 'news paper game.' It isn't a game any more, it's too much of a business...
...State Department, which had already labeled the conference as a Communist sounding board, issued a 36-page white paper reciting the Soviet government's repeated refusal of U.S. offers to exchange scholars or information. As the seven-man Russian delegation arrived, Hearst's Daily Mirror roared: "Throw the bums out. We don't want them . . . We intend to insult them-if it is possible...
...President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work and see all the Congressmen who would like to drop around...
Edwin Thomas Meredith, the man who made "Merediths," built it up from a seemingly worthless wedding present. In 1895, his uncle deeded the 19-year-old bridegroom a dying Populist paper, the Des Moines Farmers' Tribune. In seven years, Meredith put the unsuccessful Tribune into the black, then sold it to start Successful Farming with the profits. By 1922, he was selling ads for the first issue of his second magazine, Fruit, Garden and Home (now B. H. & G.). At his death in 1928, Publisher Meredith (who had been Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture) left a gilt-edged...