Word: press
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat Hurley, but I know better. As I say, not that it matters except as such things are made to matter by the press, to which your magazine stands as a shining corrective...
James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd of other boys. He took an interest in the boy and tried to rehabilitate him by psychoanalysis. He was half starved. Bud fed him and was kind to him. At first he was suspicious, for nobody ever had been kind to him really...
...several days the wires hummed merrily about millions. Then suddenly jovial Dr. Hilferding was jerked up short by brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank. A watchman of Germany's cash drawer, Dr. Schacht barked that he would not O.K. the loan. Scareheads in the Berlin press screamed that Dr. Hilferding would have to resign because now his budget would not balance. There were predictions that the Cabinet was due to fall...
...Manhattan, the Herald Tribune, generally the first recipient' of Morgan news for the daily press, broadened and mellowed the Tageblatt story thus: "Confirmation could not be obtained for the report that the German 'D' banks would cover [Dr. S'chacht's] advances to the German government by short term credits to be granted with J. P. Morgan & Co. It was understood that no negotiations for such a-deal had been opened...
Even more profitable than advertising space bought in newspapers is publicity slipped into news columns. From the Association of American Soap & Glycerine Producers, meeting in Chicago last week, went press despatches telling that three billion pounds of soap are used annually in the U. S., that "two or three times a week is the bath average where tubs are installed...