Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped to meet him some day. Astounded Ataturk took this passing note very seriously, had his press print the praises of "revolutionary" Franklin Roosevelt, instructed his minister in Washington to ask the mystified State Department just when the President of the U. S. would arrive...
...well known French lecturer will collaborate with the Minister of Propaganda in censoring news and issuing communiques to the press concerning war developments. Giraudoux and Morize were assigned by the French Government to Harvard in 1917 to instruct future members of the A.E.F. in trench warfare...
Colt Wagnor is stroking another crew, backed by Hinckley, Taylor, Riggs, Bremar, Simmons, Marshall, and Steilles. Riggs was on the powerful Freshman crew of two years ago, but he didn't row last year because of the press of scholastic work. Incidentally he is a high ranking scholar. Simmons rowed on the victorious Kent School Henley crew of 1938 but he was ineligible to row last year...
...ardent alumni and press consumption, Whitey starts off the season with a neat pamphlet on the personnel and prospects of the team. A year ago its pages glowed with confidence to thrill the hearts of Eleazor Wheelock's sons. This fall pessimism pervades. Earl Blaik's imported Minnesota star, Bob Krieger, has been bailed abroad; but at Hanover, Whitey says "Krieger is no MacLeod by any means...
...publicity philosophy of Robert "Whitey" Fuller might well be compared to that of the press agent in the Broadway production "Yokel Boy." When the hero objects to unfavorable publicity, the agent airily replies: "You get thrown in jail. So what? ...Your name is mentioned...