Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started mildly last Memorial Day. Mr. Sargent had discovered a book by a Briton, Sidney Rogerson, called Propaganda in the Next War, telling how Britain might seduce the U. S. into the coming war against Germany. When U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye read a chapter from this book (which he said Britain had tried to suppress) into the Congressional Record, Porter Sargent had 10,000 reprints made, sent them, with a one-page mimeograph of his own observations, to his mailing list of educators. They immediately called for more...
...last week, when Mr. Sargent sent out his 22nd hot bulletin, his audience had become impressive. Egging him on were H. L. Mencken, Boake Carter, John Dewey, Charles Beard, Stuart Chase, Robert Maynard Hutchins, many another bigwig. Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman wrote: "If you cut the bulletins off, I shall cut you off in my will...
Burden of Mr. Sargent's anti-war song: It is plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James...
...Mr. Sargent keeps himself informed by prodigious reading: 300 books a year, 150 periodicals, twelve confidential news letters. The attic of his ancient white farmhouse in Brookline, Mass, is packed with ten tons of reading matter, his garage with 20 tons more. He goes to his Boston office only three afternoons a week, works constantly at home. He seldom answers the telephone, sometimes lets it ring for hours. He keeps two secretaries busy clipping, summarizing and filing everything suspected of being propaganda...
...Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...