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...party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...Wife to Caesar, as in her first novel The Ellington Brat, Authoress Mellett places her characters along the Potomac's stormy northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, organized in 1924 and put to work in 1930, Congressman Bloom has been in charge of disseminating posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes...
...down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom a trace of Washington's fixity of purpose, his confidence in an ideal. With Washingtonian arrogance, though without Virginian hauteur, he wrote to a professor whom Mrs. Bloom had heard to say that Washington was not a great general: "Maybe he wasn't but England sent her best generals over here and he licked them. What do you make of that...