Word: publicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides being a leader in a great consuming industry, Alvan Macauley is an able publicist. He did not primarily urge the purchase of a Packard or any other motor car. He did indict idle money. He cited the well-known statistics of raw materials consumed by the motor industry to show that "the motor car dollar will go more places more quickly, and affect more people for quick relief than any other dollar. ... It can well become the 'self-starter' for better business and greater prosperity...
...were not disposed to maintain their tour on such a great-man-&-great-lady basis. As is their custom, they cavorted and japed in the most public places. Only at the Red Square in Moscow, where they gazed upon the mummy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), was Dramatist-Publicist Shaw as dignified as his impressive appearance. Over the corpse he commented: "A pure intellectual type. This is the true aristocracy." Other parts of the Shaw-Astor itinerary...
...domain spread into Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina. Self-confident, ambitious, no financial scheme was too big for him to tackle. He believed in the economic destiny of the South, sought to force its maturity. To his aid he drew Col. Lea, an experienced politician and publicist. Together they bought newspapers, extended their holdings, yearned for more power. Times were good. They borrowed heavily for fresh expansions, pyramided one new financial structure on top of another. Needing a friend at Nashville they "adopted" Governor Horton, insured his election with their press. Always in this new combine of politics...
...Corporation, who promise to finance it for the next three years. Its president is Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology; its vice president, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; its board chairman, Banker Norman H. Davis. Executive committee and active members include many a famed educator, publicist, business man, scientist. Director is Levering Tyson who has' retired as head of Columbia University's Department of Home Study to take...
...English Press, contributing to such periodicals as the "New Statesman," "Contemporary Review," and the "Asiatic Quarterly." In India he achieved eminence as Associate Editor and Editor-in-chief of the "Bombay Chronicle," and the "Independent" of Allahabad. In these capacities he gained an influential position as a publicist due to his grasp of public affairs and outstanding oratorical abilities. In 1920 he was one of the three delegates elected by the people of India to present the Indian case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. Upon the conclusion of his mission he remained in Europe to follow the developments...