Word: michelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month two things happened at once. The F. C. C. extended WLW's experimental strength for another six months and Powel Crosley announced the appointment of a new $10,400-a-year publicity adviser. He was Charles Michelson, still working for the Democratic National Committee at $25,000 a year...
...prime Democratic archer during the last Republican Administration was bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write...
...Charley's client's Station WLW ("The Nation's Station") is currently in bad grace with some members of the all-powerful Federal Communications Commission, particularly Commissioner George Henry Payne. But WLW got a routine extension of its increased power grant just after it hired Charley Michelson...
...revelation of these facts by Washington correspondents made as much impression on Charley Michelson as a shadow at high noon. In last week's White House press conference he sat glumly as usual at Franklin Roosevelt's right hand. To his poker-playing pals in the Press Club, to whom he consistently loses $50 a month, he seemed not to mind. Not even they could figure why Charley wanted another pay check. A widower with one son, his $25,000-a-year from the Democratic National Committee seemed ample. Charley the Mike, his pals figured, must be just...
...that sounded like political suicide, Author Michelson reminded his readers that farmers are traditionally conservative when times are good, that they may sometime be won back to the "party of substance and solemn sedateness." But that, he trusts, will not happen in 1940, or even in 1944. Abandoning all hope of a na tional victory in 1940, the G. O. P. should concentrate on replenishing its treasury, rebuilding its shattered local organizations, electing Congressmen enough to "decrease the defeatist psychology of the party," picking and electing Governors "eminent in commerce or finance, for the reason that in 1948 the Republicans...