Environment, Energy, Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-95
Author(s):  
Melissa Aronczyk ◽  
Maria I. Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Industrial Hygiene ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Science Funding ◽  
Energy Economy ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Corporate Clients

Chapter 3, Environment, Energy, Economy, opens as industrial PR practitioners in the 1950s and 1960s confront a new rival: environmental pollution and its discontents. Prior to the Second World War, industry was the leading source of information on air pollution among other problems of “industrial hygiene.” In the postwar era, with new federal science funding, changing norms of media representation, and rising legal battles for companies, alternative voices emerged around environmental issues. Amid the transformation of the nature of evidence in scientific research and a growing public anxiety over depletion of the commons, public relations counsel sought to balance the scales in their corporate clients’ favor. They would find this balance in the notion of energy as its own scarce resource in need of protection. The chapter reviews the expansion of public relations networks and the adoption of environmentalism as a force to be strategically managed.

Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Shanken
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Relations Campaign ◽  
American Institute Of Architects ◽  
Second World

Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War chronicles the fall of a professional interdiction in architecture, precipitated by the Second World War. For much of the history of their profession in the United States, architects——unlike builders and engineers, their main competition——faced censure from the American Institute of Architects if they advertised their services. Architects established models of professional behavior intended to hold them apart from the commercial realm. Andrew M. Shanken explores how the Great Depression and the Second World War strained this outdated model of practice, placing architects within consumer culture in more conspicuous ways, redefining the architect's role in society and making public relations an essential part of presenting the profession to the public. Only with the unification of the AIA after the war would architects conduct a modern public relations campaign, but the taboo had begun to erode in the 1930s and early 1940s, setting the stage for the emergence of the modern profession.

scholarly journals Koncepcja organizacji pracy w instytucji naukowej – ankiety i opracowania z okresu okupacji (1941–1942) w Państwowym Muzeum Zoologicznym w Warszawie

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Dariusz Iwan ◽  
Piotr Daszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
World War ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

The Concept of Work Organisation in a Scientific Institution – Surveys and Studies from the Occupation Period (1941–1942) at the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw During the Second World War, the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw (PMZ) suffered severe losses. Many workers were killed, and parts of the zoological and book collections were stolen by the Germans as early as 1939. The Museum became an important centre of the resistance movement, as it became a storage for weapons, explosives, and chemicals used for sabotage. Despite the repressions, the Museum employees tried to continue their work under the occupation and developed a modern model for the functioning of this institution to be implemented after the war. In the archives of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, a folder was found containing the documentation of the surveys conducted in 1941–1942 on the organisation of work and the future structure of the PMZ. This article presents the first analysis of these documents, which turned out to be a valuable source of information on the functioning of scientific institutions during the occupation, as well as on the history of the PMZ itself.

Burial sites in the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow after the Second World War

2021 ◽  
Vol 2/2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Sławomir Pastuszka
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

The article draws attention to the burial sites and tombstones at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnów from the period after World War II, which until have not been a significant object of interest among historians and epigraphists. They are a very valuable and tangible source of information about the fate of the Jewish community in Tarnów and its vicinity, which was reborn after the Holocaust, and — due to emigration and extinction — gradually disappeared years later.

The Conflict Within: Sir Stephen Tallents and Planning Propaganda Overseas Before the Second World War

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Robert Cole
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Second World War ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
World War ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
The Government ◽  
Firing Line ◽  
Second World

Propaganda overseas was vital to Britain in the Second World War. She could not easily confront her enemies alone and survive, much less win. It was imperative to keep her allies united, her empire and the commonwealth loyal, and neutrals benevolent—or perhaps, even, to get them committed to her side. These were the objectives of British propaganda overseas in war time. Despite foreign-office objections, the Committee of Imperial Defense (CID) in the mid-1930s gave responsibility for this work to the Ministry of Information (MOI), which was to be established on the outbreak of war. Meanwhile, ministry machinery had to be planned, and the policies which would govern its work had to be determined. These responsibilities were given in 1936 to Sir Stephen Tallents, public relations controller for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Britain's leading expert on advertising publicity. Yet, neither the machinery nor a policy was ready when the war began in September 1939. The ministry and the country, as Phillip M. Taylor has indicated, was inarticulate, if not quite speechless, at the start of the “war of words.” Britain was able only to conduct propaganda to enemy countries, because plans for that work earlier had been removed from MOI control.Conflicts in the planning process created this situation in which two factors stand out. MOI planners were hampered at the start by departmental and personal feuding, which was permitted because no war emergency existed, and, after 1937, by the adherents of appeasement policy who dominated Whitehall. Stephen Tallents stood on the firing line most visibly as the government, led by an economy-minded treasury, discouraged planning any propaganda machinery for war time which might even hint at serious propaganda deployment in peace time.

scholarly journals FALSIFICATION OF THE HISTORY AND RESULTS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN SOME COUNTRIES’ LEGISLATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 6(72) (3) ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
О. А. Mironova ◽  
A. E. Maksimov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uniform Policy ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Second World

The relevance of the problem is that at the present stage of development of public relations between Western countries and Russia, attempts are being made to revise the history of the Second world war and such attempts are becoming more distinct over time. The paper proposes to consider the reasons for such actions and analyze the legal acts that are adopted by countries in some countries in the direction of reviewing the prerequisites, causes and results of the great Patriotic War. The methods used in this work are comparative descriptions of normative legal acts aimed at prohibiting Communist symbols and placing them on a par with Nazi symbols. It is also proposed to understand the reasons for the preparation and publication of such acts on the territory of some countries, using the example of the Baltic States and Ukraine. In the final part of the work, we can draw a conclusion about the similarity of legal acts adopted by these States, their uniform policy in the framework of consideration of historical and legal assessments of the Second world war. The results of the work are recommendations that are proposed to be considered and discussed on these proposals, which are aimed at popularizing Patriotic tourism, preserving historical justice and preventing the reformatting of the prerequisites, causes and results of the great Patriotic War. The value of the work is to collect information from official sources, to structure it and to be able to use it in practice. This work allows us to give our own assessment of the formation of rule-making in some post-Soviet countries in the field of discussing the history of the Second world war. The paper provides recommendations for preserving historical memory and achieving the principles of openness and fairness in the interpretation of the results of the Second world war.

‘What is Past is Prologue’: Hollywood’s History of the OSS and the Establishment of the CIA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Willmetts
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Central Intelligence Agency ◽  
World War ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Public Relations Campaign ◽  
Second World

At the end of the Second World War, the OSS were swiftly disbanded. In response, OSS chief William “Wild Bill” Donovan launched a massive public relations campaign to celebrate the wartime activities of his agency and to advocate for the establishment of a permanent central intelligence agency. Hollywood, perhaps unsurprisingly given the extensive links between American filmmakers and the OSS, played an important part in mythologizing the OSS in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and in so doing helped make the case for the creation of the CIA.

scholarly journals Observatory Publications and their Significant Role in Astronomical Libraries

1989 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
Kinga Kaminska
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Second World War ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
World War ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

The Library of Warsaw University Observatory is a small one, but it is one of the oldest astronomical libraries in Poland. The library collection has been gathered almost since the beginning of the Warsaw Observatory, that is since 1825. Although a large part of our collection was burned during the Second World War, the remaining part contains many unique items. Scholars doing research in the area of the history of astronomy often find our collection very helpful in their work.Observatory publications play a significant role in my library. In general, we have limited possibilities for buying publications with hard currency. Therefore, any free publications obtained by my library constitute an extremely valuable source of information about new research and discoveries all over the world.

British Military Information Management Techniques and the South Asian Soldier: Eastern India during the Second World War

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
World War ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
British Military ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
The Many ◽  
Second World

This article examines the dissemination of military propaganda and the operation of censorship structures within the Indian Army ‘units’—a term used in historically contemporary documentary sources to denote regiments, divisions or battalions—serving in the eastern provinces of the subcontinent during the Second World War. Instead of presenting propaganda as merely being misleading information, this work operates with Philip Taylor's interpretation of it being a combination of ‘facts, fiction, argument or suggestion’, and concentrates instead on unravelling its form and the intent behind its deployment. Moreover, the often artificial distinction between ‘propaganda’ and ‘counter-propaganda’ is avoided, since the many wartime British public relations projects in South Asia that were aimed at contradicting particular enemy claims were very frequently represented as having other concerns. Particular attention is devoted to describing the military's attitudes towards policies of propaganda and information between 1942 and 1945, as these years saw Eastern India, defined in wartime official documents as being comprised of Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, the eastern districts of the United Provinces and the sparsely populated frontier areas bordering Burma, develop into an important base of operations against the Japanese armies located in Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals Listy do Wilna

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Mariusz Pawelec
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Soviet Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Spiritual Leader ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

Years 1928–1948 were extremely important for Hajji Seraya Shapshal – an Orientalist and the spiritual leader of Karaims working in these years in Vilnius. In the first decade of this period he was a prolific researcher and an active spiritual and social leader in the what was then the Second Polish Republic nota bene very tolerant towards Karaim religion. The second decade of this period includes the years of the Second World War, the first short years of independent Lithuania along with the years of its German occupation, and, finally, a few years of the not less problematic Soviet rule. Seraya Shapshal’s played a key role in these hard times as the spiritual and secular leader of the Karaim community. The correspondence between him and Ananiasz Zajączkowski is therefore an extremely important source of information not only on Seraya Shapszal, but also on the whole Karaim nation.

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