Word: publicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well," drawled Publicist Bernays, "there are two other young men here and we were just discussing the binomial theorem. It's a beautiful...
...with a new game (see p. 68) and influential members anxiously discussed the coming elections for president, there was serious business afoot on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Summoned to attend a secret meeting of the public relations committee was Edward L. Bernays, No. 1 U. S. publicist. He had obviously been called in to discuss the vexed question of "reselling" the Stock Exchange to the public. Perhaps, newshawks reasoned, he had been hired to take over that job. When later that day the committee refused to say what had happened at the meeting, newshawks trooped over...
...last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...
...name of Ivy Lee, richest publicist in the land, is known to the greenest cub reporter (TIME, Aug. 7, 1933). Yet few newsmen ever saw him, few understood him, most resented or mistrusted him. Yet no one could deny his claim that he never asked a newspaper editor to print anything. On the other hand, newsmen well knew that Ivy Lee would give out just what information he considered helpful to his clients, and no more...