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McPherson rose to prominence during the golden age of P.R., when Ivy Lee was talking up the Rockefellers and the Democratic Party and Edward Bernays was selling everything from Dixie cups to the First World War.
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The First World War profoundly changed the world’s financial architecture.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
But, having been shut for much of the First World War, the Russian exchange opened again in January 1917.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
After the First World War, the Croatian town of Rijeka was invaded by Italian nationalists led by the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, who, between 1919 and 1921, turned the city, under its Italian name of Fiume, into a proto-Fascist dictatorship much admired by Benito Mussolini.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The First World War profoundly changed the world’s financial architecture.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
But, having been shut for much of the First World War, the Russian exchange opened again in January 1917.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
After the First World War, the Croatian town of Rijeka was invaded by Italian nationalists led by the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, who, between 1919 and 1921, turned the city, under its Italian name of Fiume, into a proto-Fascist dictatorship much admired by Benito Mussolini.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
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