Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles Daily News seemed on its deathbed ten months ago when former Democratic Congressman Clinton D. McKinnon bought the paper (TIME, Jan. 4). It was about $2,000,000 in debt and losing at the rate of $1,500,000 a year. McKinnon set out to woo "militantly Democratic readers," pepped up the writing and reporting and aggressively went after new advertising. He succeeded in cutting the daily losses of the News from $4,600 to less than $1,000 a day. But McKinnon's remedies were not enough...
...Russians also joined, at least with moral support, in Red China's campaign against Formosa-while carefully avoiding any outright commitment to support any Red Chinese invasion. The two Red partners also used the occasion to woo Japan, urged the Japanese to "liberate" themselves from the U.S. Significantly, the accords totally transformed the status of Japan in Communist eyes. Before, Japan had been portrayed as an "aggressive threat and tool" of the American imperialists, and used as a pretext for the need for Russian troops in Port Arthur. In the accords. Japan was transformed to a "victim...
...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...
...last week had the unhappy look of rejected lovers. Both networks went all out this season to woo the TV audience. NBC splurged on "spectaculars," starting off with Satins and Spurs, starring Betty Hutton. CBS countered with Best of Broadway, featuring Helen Hayes, Fredric March and Claudette Colbert in the 1927 comedy, The Royal Family. But the viewers dialed away in droves from these extravaganzas and tuned in, instead, to old, familiar programs...
...gaily clad Mecca-bound pilgrims, Communists all, yet Moslems to a man. Two of them, their passports showed, were Red army officers. While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...