Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in setting up the new Publicity Department of the Foreign Office, he moved to finish the plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into...
Scandalized Laborites, who consider Lord Perth (former Ambassador to Italy) an arch-appeaser, though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press...
Hazy idea floating through the Prime Ministerial mind seemed to be that the Publicity Department might succeed in convincing the German people there is no encirclement. Those who recalled how British propaganda sold the Germans Wood-row Wilson's 14 points and helped break down their resistance in 1918...
To help finance its strike against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike...
In the event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection...