Word: publicists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Arno, no publicist, discourages the inquisitive by mingling truth with legend. "My art studies," he states, "have been principally pursued in dark alleys. ... I met with overnight success which ended the next morning. ... I have an oil painting in the Yale permanent collection, where no one will ever see it. ... At the age of three I was seduced by an old lady with a long grey beard...
...Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped from 16,000 words per day to about...
...that line under Hoover. He is usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...Tammany campaign, in its closing hours, has sunk from the sidewalks to the sewers* of New York," said Hooverism's chief publicist...
Penetrating behind the electoral votes predicted in 1924 to the ratios of popular votes then predicted by the Literary Digest, Democrats last week pointed to wider margins of error. Dr Fabian Franklin, Manhattan economist-publicist, in a debate by letter with Editor William Seaver Woods of the Literary Digest, compared the predicted ratios of Davis and Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been...