Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, however, is doubtful about the proposition of having a press agent, believing that it would not be approved by the country and that the director's functions would degenerate into propaganda rather than present the Administration's policies authoritatively. It is believed that the plan was originally broached by Mr. A. D. Lasker, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, who formerly was head of Lord and Thomas (advertising firm) in Chicago and had charge of Republican advertising during the 1920 national campaign...
...years' time he had become disillusioned with the I. W. W., and, returning to Chicago, worked for a railroad until 1915, when he became business agent for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, holding this position for a year and a half...
...Michigan state criminal syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board, attempted to prove that the defendant's advocacy...
About two months ago nearly every newspaper editor in America committed the sin for which (in the eyes of the profession) there is no forgiveness. They allowed themselves to be "played for suckers" by a press agent. Harry Reichenbach juggled the names of Otto Kahn and the Green Room Club, and thereby got free publicity for Reigen-columns of it in every paper. Reigen is a play by Schnitzer, a great dramatist, but the point which Reichenbach took pains to "put over" was that it was immoral. How many of the millions who read the "story" knew that...
...success at a minimum cost, support these "institutions", for modern enlightenment has not yet replaced mediaeval superstition. A "royal road" to learning is still sought,--some uncanny alchemy to make knowledge grow where ignorance grew before. Strangely enough, many people would rather trust to the potency of some unknown agent, than rely on the well-proven prescription of self-denial and hard work...