Word: guimier
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...French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper bloc, M. Pierre Guimier, a director in Paris of the Agence Havas, chief French wire service and advertising agency...
...Guimier handled more particularly the advertising side of the business and in France it is not considered strange that there should exist an Agence which in the U. S. could be duplicated only by merging into strange bedfellowship, for example, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and the Associated Press. Adman Guimier is also the publisher of the violently anti-Blum daily Journal and as such is a newsman in his own right. Last week he broke the biggest French press story in years by resigning his Havas directorship and hurling the charge that Premier Blum had told Havas they could take...
This was printed and nothing was done about it, but Premier Blum does intend to introduce shortly a law compelling all French newsorgans to list and publish the sources from which they derive their income. It is against this that M. Guimier and his friends have been waging what became an open vendetta when the Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized...
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