Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news picture from Phoenix, Ariz, (see cut) gave many a U.S. citizen a fascinated sense of peeking into a neighbor's photograph album. It showed Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger helping granddaughter Anna Eleanor Boettiger dress for her wedding last week to her college sweetheart, 25-year-old Van H. Seagraves...
...bulletin board of the Arizona Times, a staffer had posted a sign: WELCOME SHERIFF. F.D.R.'s strapping daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger read the notice, grimly marched into her office. It was too nearly true to be funny. Before the Phoenix sheriff got any ideas, Publisher Anna was hoping to sell the Times...
Anna and her husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...
...Republic is not [necessarily] a Democracy? That is a new historical revelation to me.") But he was most anxious for a chapter on "The Inevitability of Wars in the Capitalist System." All the other powers protested hotly. Said the U.S. delegate (jovial, white-haired Harry R. Wyman of the Phoenix Junior College in Arizona): "It isn't our purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist and the Capitalist systems can and must exist together...
Elmon L. Coe, Phoenix. Neil J. Smelser, Phoenix...