Sentence:  `` It is as though '' , I said on the historic three-hour , coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I <WSD>bought</WSD> ( following Father Coughlin and pre empting the Eddie Cantor , Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House , like some despot of yore , insisted on reading my diary , raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie ! '' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction