Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Vatican's paper, Osservatore Romano, slapped back. "A Roman tribunal has made statements of extreme gravity . . ." it editorialized. "Its statements separate the lay order from religious morals. In a religious nation such as Italy, where the state declared the Catholic religion to be its own religion, the public magistrate cannot but bow to the dictates of that religion...
...screen it is so remote from any form of viciousness or meanness." Only the august Times held out, printing not a word of the Monroe presence in London. It was promptly taken to task in the double-domed, socialist New Statesman and Nation: "The Times is a news paper-indeed, according to some, still the greatest newspaper in the world. And a newspaper ought at least to mention an event which clearly excites and interests a very large number of people and by reason of that fact alone has some place in the social history of our time...
Nevertheless, threats against O'Dowd and his family and pressure on the newspaper, which his father, 68, had published since 1912, only increased. Last week Jack O'Dowd resigned "for my own good and the good of the paper." Next month he will join the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times as a reporter. Said O'Dowd regretfully: "I'm certain that the News no longer will buck racial feeling...
...Department bulldozing a path ahead, everything was straightened out. In Moscow this week, 50,000 copies of the new Amerika, looking much like the old, will go out to Russian readers as soon as U.S.S.R. hits U.S. newsstands (20? a copy). Big and color-splashed, the 64-page, slick-paper U.S.S.R. follows the pattern of most high-class U.S. picture magazines. On the cover is a four-color shot of President Eisenhower chatting with Soviet Premier Bulganin at Geneva, and inside the Reds are on their best brochuremanship. Starting off with a plea by Bulganin for "mutual understanding," U.S.S.R. goes...
Record sales pushed up giant General Electric Co. to a net of $113 million (v. $108 million last year) on sales just below $2 billion. Sylvania's sales high of $155 million produced earnings of $3,000,000 Wrapping up other records in the packaging boom, St. Regis Paper Co. earned $12.3 million v. $8.7 million in the first half of 1955. Continental Can Co. had a half-year record net of $14.5 million, up from $10.3 million last year. High retail sales were reflected in store profits. In its first 24 weeks of the year, Safeway Stores...