Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicherin destroyed his health trying to be a one-man Foreign Office. He retired in 1928, was Commissar in name only until 1930, died in 1936, was succeeded by his Vice-Commissar, a former newspaperman, corset salesman and revolutionary hold-up man who had begun his diplomatic career as the first Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain...
Introduced by Bruce Hopper '17, associate professor of Government, who attended Montana University with him, the veteran newspaperman spoke to a near capacity crowd in Harvard 1 and conducted a short forum afterwards. He began by attacking isolationism, likening it to a refusal to acknowledge the existence of small pox next door. "The present decay of world order amounts to ruination without representation," he said, citing the failure of diplomacy, the League, and armaments to solve international disputes...
Although he is a personal friend of Streit's and approves the ideas in principles, Professor Hopper and yesterday that he was not in complete agreement, and in "sponsoring" the newspaperman in order to present Harvard with a provocative idea...
...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...
William Allen White, noted American newspaperman and editor of the Emporia, Kansas, "Gazette" will speak on "What was the West" Monday in the first of a series of three lectures in the New Lecture Hall...