Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provisions of the proposed law or violates it by pledging Germany to new reparations payments." Impartial observers concede Hugenberg followers the necessary 4,000,000 votes to bring this law before the Reichstag. It is also probable that the Reichstag would reject it. All branches of the powerful Hugenberg press organization were working last week to whip up the 20,000.000 votes necessary to pass the "Liberty Law" over the Reichstag's rejection. Manifesto. Opponents of the "Liberty Law" were not silent last week. While Hugenberg followers paraded and shouted hoarsely on street corners, both the German Reich...
...independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared evident that Matchmaker Kreuger had come to establish a 100% monopoly in Germany as he had done in other countries. Indignant, the patriotic German press published premature announcements of the plan. It was stated that Swedish Match Co. would buy the monopoly by offering the government a loan of 600,000,000 marks (about $144,000,000). Last week despite public opposition Ivar Kreuger made the match, a more clever and less offensive match than...
Last week the United States Daily's publisher, Princeton-educated, Associated Press-trained David Lawrence, sent a letter to his subscribers announcing that he would attempt something new. To the Daily's patient chronicle of the Federal scene were to be added the minutes of government in all the 48 States...
...treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection to the domestic industry. He told investigators that his headquarters had spent $500,000 in seven years to "educate" the public. He even admitted that most of his press releases were "bunk." For his services he receives $8,000 per year. He admitted that he had misrepresented William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, as favoring a higher sugar duty, but said it was an "accidental mistake." Denying that he was a lobbyist who buttonholed Senators, Lobbyist...
...help the State's interests on the tariff bill. Mr. Eyanson was sent to Washington, settling himself in Senator Bingham's office. During the open hearings he sat at the Senator's elbow and whispered questions to be asked witnesses. He prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that Eyanson was the hired man of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, which praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that...