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The Bureau of Publicity of the Democratic National Committee, 1930–32
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
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An earlier note in the Review indicated the desirability of minority party activity in the interval between campaigns and appraised the organization and functioning of the publicity bureau of the Democratic national committee from June 1, 1929, until September 1,1930. During the period from September, 1930, to the convening of the Democratic national convention on June 27, 1932, the bureau continued, as a party agency, to criticise the policies of the Hoover administration and to assume, in a limited degree, the educational function of the minority party. In addition, it was necessary during the first session of the Seventy-second Congress to explain and justify the work of the Democratic House of Representatives.
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1 February, 1931, pp. 69–73.
2 “The distribution of statements by conspicuous Democrats by the Democratic publicity bureau has attempted,” said Jouett Shouse, “to place before the people of this country the errors, inconsistencies, and contradictions of the Hoover administration” (New York Times, August 26, 1930). In a radio address on September 29, 1930, Mr. Michelson frankly stated that the purpose of the bureau was to present the Democratic side of things, and that under these circumstances, the President naturally came under fire (Ibid., September 30, 1930).
3 There were some charges that Mr. Raskob and Mr. Shouse opposed the nomination of Governor Roosevelt, but there is no evidence that their personal predilections influenced the official policy of the bureau.
4 For a critical appraisal of the methods and results of publicity bureaus, see quotations of Kent, F. R. in Editor and Publisher, August 20, 1932Google Scholar.
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