Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in years that either of the great parties has had a really first-class newsman at the head of its publicity. The newspaper connections of earlier Democratic press directors were largely nominal. In 1912, the Democracy's publicist was Thomas J. Pence, a political satellite of the late great Ollie James. His journalistic background was Josephus Daniels' Raleigh, N. C., News & Observer. In 1916 the post was better handled by Robert Wickliffe Woolley of the New York World, who for his services was made an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. In 1920, few were the reprintings of Democratic publicity prepared...
Publisher Copley's only recourse then was the Press, to "minimize as far as possible" damage "which can never be repaired." Through newsgatherers he challenged Senator Norris to come out from behind Senatorial immunity and repeat his charges. "If he will state this outside the Senate, I will bring him promptly before a Court of Justice." Then, describing himself as an "oldfashioned American citizen," he continued...
...shirtsleeve newsmen. From his contacts with statesmen, Pundit Bell long ago contracted the habit of talking like one. Where a few journalists are gathered together, he unconsciously addresses them as an oracle from some other world. There is something obnoxious to workaday correspondents about a man who conceives the Press to have more than the communicative function. A Bell feat, and the significance attached by him to it, in the year (1924) before Publisher Lawson's death, were typical of what newsmen mean when they say: "Old Bell's at it again...
Virtually ignored by the U. S. press, the Galveston tournament was Big News elsewhere in the world. In Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...papers had devoted entire front pages to the daily doings of Miss Brazil (svelte Olga Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the Contest two special wires carried the story from Galveston to New York, thence by direct cable to Buenos Aires where special United Press editors hung over the keyboard to relay the story northward to Rio de Janeiro. Huge crowds were gathered in front of the big Rio newspaper offices to watch returns flashed on the screen...