Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disreputable Transaction." In Parliament next day Gordon-Walker found himself faced with others who felt much the same. "One dislikes interference of this kind in matters between man and wife," said the Liberals' Clement Davies. "A disreputable transaction," rumbled Tory Winston Churchill. The government, refusing to publish its special commission's report, offered no answer beyond the statement that they "viewed with grave concern the danger which recognition [of Seretse] would cause." What His Majesty's ministers refused to admit was readily added by Seretse himself. "It has been firmly believed at home for a long time...
...measure, she said, affected only the business staffs of the two organizations and did not imply that the News would control the literary policies of Signature or publish the magazine's material...
...which a merger with the News would offer them. It was not intended that the News should in any way control the literary policies of Signature, but only that the business staff of the News could untangle the Signature financial muddle. The original idea was that Signature could be published in a less expensive format and then circulated with the News. It was hoped that by cutting expenses to the minimum the Signature debt would not increase at its present astronomical rate; the News would then assume responsibility for the remainder of the debt. As far as I know, there...
Signature is not going to collapse. It must publish until June, since it cannot break contracts which stipulate that advertisements must appear in four issues. The suspension of publication would serve only to increase the debt, since income from advertisements exceeds income from circulation...
...Executive Board proposal had not explained the particulars for a working combination of the two publications, nor did it state whether it considered continuing each separately or having the News publish stories and poetry by the Signature staff on its pages...