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...their heads. The fishing is done with poles having a sharp hook at the end, and while they fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...National Soap Sculpture Committee requests the honor of your presence at the sixth annual exhibition of small sculptures in white soap for the Procter & Gamble prizes. . . ." Well-informed citizens immediately recognized the contest as a clever advertising scheme proposed some years ago and put into execution by smart Publicist Edward L. Bernays. The idea was suggested by the quantity of soap sculptures which annually were sent to Procter & Gamble, makers of Ivory Soap, by unknown but aspiring sculptors. The exhibition last week contained nearly 5,000 pieces, was international in scope...
...Presidency changed him?" asked Will Irwin, Republican campaign publicist, of his good friend Herbert Hoover in an article in the May American. His answer: "Not that...
...shrewd publicist plans a new building, notifies President Hoover that its construction is to stabilize economic conditions, he will have his reward. Last week Elzey Roberts, publisher of the St. Louis Star, announced plans for a new $1,500.000 Star plant as "our contribution to President Hoover's prosperity program." A commendatory telegram from the White House to show to his friends, to broadcast as publicity, was Publisher Roberts' reward...
...Literary Digest tabulated the first 291,588 answers to 20,000,000 questionnaires sent out, found 118,934 for repeal, 91,915 for modification, 80,739 for enforcement. Drys had been loudly warned by Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, publicist for the Anti-Saloon League, not to vote in the Digest-poll, which he flayed as "uncontrolled, valueless." Wets accused Dr. Cherrington of trying to set up an alibi...