Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Dickey is a member of the Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...
...writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ Mr. Carl Byoir and Mr. Carl Dickey? It was specifically understood that the work involved no propaganda and no anti-Jewish activities. ... I always regarded it almost...
Turkey became the first firm ally of the Soviet Union and Jew Suritz crowned his work last autumn, when Dictator Kemal celebrated the tenth year of his republic. From Moscow an imposing delegation of Bolshevik bigwigs went to Ankara and. as a great exception to Dictator Stalin's ban on junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone...
...hand are the colleges that complain of their freshmen who seem to know so little about organizing and using their time. On the other hand are the schools that see some of their graduates fail in college for lack of a firm but friendly hand to offer guidance at the psychological moment. The test of fitness for college, say the university authorities, is the ability of the individual to take purposeful advantage to his opportunities. Correct reply the school heads, but follow each boy individually, especially at first, until he becomes oriented; or, in other words, until he knows what...
...took over a part of the defense during the last days of the trial in Charlestown will be in charge of the defendants' case in the higher court. He has recently published a treatise on the legal aspects of the N.R.A. and was dismissed from a law firm with which he was associated when he rallied to the defense of the rioters...