Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...
...custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
...America is a scrapbook, eclectic but inclusive and not haphazard. Its 200 photographs, drawings, cartoons, handbills, programs, advertisements go swimmingly with the text, help to make the book a continuous, carefully edited newsreel of a day just gone...
...Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of "sprucing up the home" now instead of later. As an aid to public construction he cited $450,000,000 worth of state bond issues which voters can pass upon on Election...
...bought several years ago. Soon he would be off again to his 30,000-acre suzerainty in California, trailing across the continent clouds of a glory peculiarly dear to a newspaper man. After dinner he gave his guests a taste of that glory?showed them a Hearst-Metro-tone newsreel of himself as he had appeared debarking from Europe in Manhattan the fortnight before, grinning broadly, waving his hat, clutching the Stars & Stripes...