Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...
...which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere and Baron Beaverbrook...
Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...story about Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. had been printed not long before (TIME, Feb. 25). Soon Mrs. Christie wrote her thanks to TIME, and the letter too was printed. The press picked it up, sent it broadcast. Editors in far-away cities editorialed. The alert Minneapolis Star sent a pleasant photographer who snapped a very good likeness ?the one used by nearly all the rotogravures...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...