Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Financial Juggler Fox, 49, had injected new life into the Post, circulation and advertising dropped (TIME, July 9). Fox himself still owed $1,000,000 of the $3,200,000 he agreed to pay for the paper. Last week, after Fox turned down
Boston Attorney John S. Bottomly's offer to buy the Post, he folded the paper...
...daily, World War II officially ended last week. In 1942, the Japan Times was ordered by Tojo's bullyboys to change its title, substitute Nippon-the name by which Japanese know their country-for its Western-style Japan. Last week, after 14 years as the Nippon Times, the paper took its old name back to signify a "rededication to the high principles and purposes of the free press...
Diplomatic Rewrite. Japanese government officials rely on the Japan Times for significant international news; the dispatches from foreign embassies are often rewrites from the Japan Times. With five wire services and a battery of U.S. columnists, from Lippmann to Leonard Lyons, the paper also appeals to internationally minded Japanese citizens, who account for half its 78,935 circulation. The Times's temperate editorial policy is often an effective answer to the xenophobic views of other Japanese newspapers...
...still the only independent among the nation's four English-language dailies. The Japan Times before the war had powerful backing from the Mitsubishi and Mitsui trusts and government-linked financial houses. During the war, the Times was subsidized by the Japanese Foreign Office, which used the paper as a propaganda medium...