Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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case involved a union paper...
...plus $30,000 from a haberdasher friend, they went to New York-and ran up against potent Klaw & Erlanger, whose syndicate then controlled all New York bookings, plus everything of importance on the road. Though the Shuberts did their best to make friends with the press, some New York papers, dependent on K. & E. ads, panned the brothers and their shows. Libeling a Shubert, scoffed one paper, "would be as cruel as unnecessary...
This, after all their good intentions, destroyed their faith in newspapers. It forced them for a while to put out their own paper (the New York Review) to get publicity, and made them secretive ever after. In 1905, Sam, the acknowledged leader of the family, died when the train he was riding ran into a carload of dynamite; Lee and Jake have never traveled together since. But Jake and Lee went on to fight with drama critics, bar them from theaters, and are said to have issued a manifesto that they wanted to be called "the Messrs. Shubert," not "Jake...
Died. Flaude Cleveland, 67, spinster bank president (Addison State Bank); in Addison, Mich. Daughter of a saloonkeeper, before she was seven she had a paper route. She rose to shoeshine girl in a barbershop, became a bank janitor in 1907, after 22 years wound up as bank president...
...life has been a variegated one. Under a conviction that I shall not live to give its details to the younger branches of my family, I have concluded to put upon paper a few incidents that may perhaps afford entertainment and instruction to them when I am no more. It is my wish that it may not be read out of the circle of my family, and that it may never be published...