press-agentry
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His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the Air Force does have some remarkable missiles, the stratospheric claims of Airman Gardner had the bumptious ring of old-style Air Force press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the committee members, as to many Congressmen, OIC seemed a windy, posturing, inefficient and expensive peace time version of the Office of War Information�in short, just another unnecessary excrescence of Government press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
It apparently was released by a public-relations man who was more interested in press-agentry than he was in the truth.
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)
