Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost ten years ago, in April, 1929, Mr. Frank J. Ryan was appointed the first full-time publicity director in Harvard's history. This was, in itself, a tremendous innovation. Formerly, the University's press relations were in a deplorable state; a reporter was looked upon as someone to be avoided whenever possible. This attitude had serious consequences for Harvard...
...only a logical outgrowth of this attitude that the press retaliated by arousing prejudice against the University. However, this was not prompted by mercenary motives but was rather the result of misunderstanding. Harvard shunned publicity like a temperamental movie queen, and found, in so doing, that it was inviting animosity. But with the appointment of Mr. Ryan, conditions steadily began to improve. He saw to it that the press was received well and given the necessary information. For the past few years, his work has been taken for granted; but then it involved a radical change in, policy, and later...
Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
...American Press Association Directory this month showed that newspapers in towns of less than 20,000 increased by 194 to a total of 10,179 in 1938. All but a handful are weeklies. X. W. Ayer & Son's Directory shows that dailies declined last year from...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...