Word: carles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great benefactor." Ivy Lee's firm, now under the direction of sober Thomas J. Ross, still has the Rockefellers, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chrysler Corp. and other industrial giants as clients. More spectacularly successful today are such younger rivals as Edward L. Bernays (Procter & Gamble, Allied Chemical & Dye), Carl Byoir (A. & P., Goodrich, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Steve Hannagan (Miami Beach, Union Pacific), Benjamin Sonnenberg (Texaco, Philip Morris, Remington Rand), Bernard Lichtenberg (Swift & Co., United Brewers Industrial Foundation...
Scripps took the State Tribune into his chain, adopted Magee's motto, "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way," made a lighthouse Scripps-Howard's emblem. Carl Magee, who was kept in charge, typified the crusading Scripps editor of the 19203, when the Scripps newspapers from coast to coast were dedicated to cleaning up corruption. Then one day Magee was knocked down and booted about a hotel lobby by a judge whom he had accused of corruption. Magee drew a revolver, boggled his aim, killed a boy who was trying to help...
Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...
...damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt cut about 90,000 words from Wickford Point, before submitting it to the Post...
...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...