The Press: Impartial

Ivy Ledbetter Lee and Associates of Manhattan are "public relations counsel."* The principal business of Mr. Lee is to present to newspapers "statements" containing just those activities his clients desire to place before the public. The following anecdote related last week by the October issue of the American Mercury served to illustrate why some newspapermen do not like, do not trust Mr. Lee:

"On the afternoon of February 25, 1925 . . . the New York American received a tip that Abby Rockefeller, the somewhat turbulent daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was...

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