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...Governors who enjoyed the hospitality of California's James (''Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. Monkeyshines began when their special train was playfully "held up" at midnight as it crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic near Lake Tahoe and champagne on the train from Sacramento to Oakland. In San Francisco's Palace Hotel the Governors ate off a $500,000 gold service while Communists fussed noisily outside. They...
...announces the formation of the firm of IVY LEE and T. J. ROSS 15 Broad Street, New York...
...Business and the Press last week went chastely printed cards with the above announcement. The cards did not state what business Messrs. Lee & Ross were engaged in, but it is unlikely that anyone had to ask. Every big businessman, every news editor and a good portion of the public have long been thoroughly aware of Ivy Ledbetter Lee as the highest priced pressagent in the land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York...
...well known as Ivy Lee is able Thomas Joseph Ross, Jr., 39. Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee. Not only did he rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite...
While Mr. Lee looked on benignly, Chief-of-Staff Ross announced that henceforth he was a senior partner. Moreover, the rest of them were appointed junior partners : Burnham Carter, who joined the firm ten years ago and lately returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote...