Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the other awards were two $1500 cash prizes given to Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., for two campaigns which this agency conducted, one for the General Motors Company, and the other for R. H. Macy Company...
...probably in recognition of bis character that he was given diplomatic posts, made Ambassador to Japan, coupled with John Barton Payne to arrange for the resumption of diplomatic relations with Mexico, then made Ambassador to Mexico. In view of his diplomatic service, he may have hoped for the Secretariat of State instead of the Attorney Generalship. In fact, it is not impossible that he took the latter post in hope of later being raised to the former. If Mr. Kellogg's term of office as Secretary of State should be brief-who would follow after...
Last week, Collier's published an article at the hand of Mr. Barton: What Difference Does It Make? Mr. Barton declared that he had "almost quit reading newspapers" and in so doing had added 30 minutes a day to a life which he appears to relish keenly. At one time, he had felt it incumbent upon him, as a well-informed man, to consume one entire newspaper both morning and evening-glutting up all the stories about box victims, drink-mad stabbers, love-cult brides, modern Bluebeards, poisoned toadstools ,and incendiary spinsters together with more important social and political...
...Editor of The New York World, is obviously a man to take exception to such talk. When the editors of Collier's showed him What Difference Does It Make?, Editor Swope shouted for a stenographer and dictated It Makes a Lot of Difference. "Perhaps if my friend Bruce Barton were a more consistent reader of newspapers, he would not have committed himself to so many fallacies as he does in this article. Because one item in his paper was unimportant, he argues that all items are unimportant . . . Not so long ago some shots were fired at royalty...
Finally to annihilate Mr. Barton in this friendly argument, Editor Swope closed with the adduction of Thomas Jefferson's remark that, if it were left to him to decide "whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter...