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Perhaps the most exciting thing that heavyset, slack-jowled George Zook ever did was propagandizing in World War I under George Creel. A Methodist and ex-Rotarian, he taught history at Pennsylvania State College, spent eight able but unspectacular years as president of Ohio's University of Akron. President Roosevelt named him U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1933. One year later Zook resigned to take the A.C.E...
...which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...Alfred M. Landon, William Agar (former Vice President of Freedom House), George Creel, John Dewey, Varian Fry (editor of Common Sense), Publisher Martin J. Quigley, A. Phillip Randolph (President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters), Oswald Garrison Villard, Justice Francis E. Rivers, ex-Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Elliott V. Bell (New York State Superintendent of Banks), Publisher Frederick S. Crofts, Raymond Leslie Buell (former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association...
Married. George Creel, 66, director of U.S. propaganda in World War I; and Alice May Rosseter, 46, until recently NLRB director in San Francisco; each for the second time; in Manhattan. His first wife was the late theatrical favorite, Blanche Bates; the bride's first husband was the late John Henry Rosseter, vice president of W. R. Grace...
...Parliamentary debates about BBC and by radio in general. Partly aided by a Rockefeller grant which expires this month, yellow-haired, big-domed Professor Friedrich has given five years of study to radio politics-five years in which his contempt for Naziism and Nazi "indoctrination" methods (indebted to the Creel Committee, as Goebbels used to acknowledge) has been thoroughly confirmed...