press-agentry
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While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story.
From Time Magazine Archive
His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
France's designers are delighted to have the press-agentry their first lady provides by simply strolling within range of photographers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the rub-a-dub-dub of press-agentry, they emerged as ordinary, hardworking, courageous airmen who were willing to chance death in the hope of finding the future that lies in some far sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the averagely curious citizen, eager for insight behind the gilded curtains of press-agentry and partisanship, it was hailed as a shaft of common-sense sunlight thrown into a clay-footed wilderness of political pap.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
