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...Committee on Pressure Groups and Propaganda" has been organized to investigate research possibilities in the field of political propaganda and advertising campaigns by the Social Science Research Council. Dr. E. P. Herring, instructor in Government, and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, has been selected as a member of this committee...
...forces on public opinion. "Pressure groups" or lobbies and organizations for the promotion for particular social or legislative programs in which they have a special interest will also be studied. Examples of such groups are the American Legion, the W. C. T. U., trade associations, and labor unions. Dr. Herring will supervise the general survey of research on promotion activities...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...mouth-filling Manx oath: "By the wonderful works that God miraculously wrought in between heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I swear to execute the laws of the Isle justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." Indulgently a Manx elder explained: "The backbone of a herring lies 'indifferently'-that is without any 'difference' or deviation to the right or the left-in the fish. Our ancient deemster's oath...
...Hecht's A Jew in Love (TIME, Jan. 26) was said to represent Bodenheim; Bodenheim's Duke Herring is known to be an attack on Hecht...