Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preparation, Late in March, Fox Film Corp. began to prepare for the ghost-laying by electing Glenn Griswold, long time editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, to vice president in charge of publicity (TIME, March 23). Swart Mr. Griswold is so familiar with the ways of the press that soon many items got them selves into newspapers, to the effect that the financing would be taken care of in due time. President Harley Clarke gave out an interview. "The motion picture business suffered remarkably little from the period of depression," said he. Al though reliable figures on motion picture...
...Cinema publicity" suggests live elephants in theatre lobbies when African hunting pictures are being shown, or stunting airmen cavorting over housetops to herald films with flying heroes. It does not suggest a knowledge of stocks, bonds and corporate finance. Yet last week Glenn Griswold became vice president in charge of publicity for Fox Film Corp., and for 20 years the Griswold career has been exclusively in financial journalism. Financial editor of the Chicago Examiner and, later, of the Chicago Tribune, Chicago manager for Dow Jones & Co., the man who helped organize the Chicago Journal of Commerce in six weeks...
...Able is Mr. Clarke and varied are his interests (which include ownership of the second largest brickyard in the world), but depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema companies which can expect an eager rush of investors to purchase their securities. Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema publicity, should be able to launch the forthcoming Fox bonds into...
...Glenn Griswold, longtime editor of Chi" cago Journal of Commerce, became a vice president of Fox Film Corp...
...Among the apostolic churches, however, a man's consecration as bishop ranks him closer than the priests to God and much closer than the unhallowed members of the Church. Hence the men at Philadelphia - led by that persistent foe of Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, editor of the Chronicle - in demanding the electoral recall of bishops dis pleasing to the priests and laymen who chose them, demand something that is uncanonical, almost heretical...