Appointed tub thumper for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Sept. 6. Ben M. Cherrington, of the University of Denver, has just been named Chief of a new division in the State Department just established by Secretary Hull, and which will be known as the "Division of Cultural Relations." The new division, long anticipated, has been characterized as a step by the U.S. Government to disseminate American propaganda abroad in the same manner that numerous European governments now are disseminating their respective propaganda throughout the world by radio broadcasts, national literature, posters, and lecturers traveling abroad, 9638
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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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