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The Committee on Public Information (1917–1919), also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I, in particular, the US home front.
Edgar Sisson, 1919. Sisson had worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, as managing editor of Collier's Weekly, and then as editor of Cosmopolitan before joining the Committee on Public Information (CPI), a wartime unit of the United States government that sought to control information and promote America's war effort principally on the home front but also overseas. [3]
The Four Minute Men were a group of volunteers authorized by United States President Woodrow Wilson to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them by the Committee on Public Information (CPI). In 1917–1918, over 750,000 speeches were given in 5,200 communities by over 75,000 accomplished orators, reaching about 400 million listeners. [1]
April 13, 1917 414 2594: Creating Committee on Public Information April 13, 1917 415 2595 April 14, 1917 416 2596: Allowing Treasury Department Employees to be Appointed on Defense Organizations April 14, 1917 417 2597: Establishing Additional Defensive Sea Areas April 14, 1917 418 2598 Mr. Henry Fox, Exemption From Civil Service Rules on ...
United States. Committee on Public Information. National service handbook (1917) online free; Negro Year Book 1916; New International Year Book 1914, Comprehensive coverage of national and state affairs, 913pp; New International Year Book 1915, Comprehensive coverage of national and state affairs, 791pp
Creel was born on December 1, 1876, in Blackburn, Missouri, to Henry Clay Creel and Virginia Fackler Creel, who had three sons, Wylie, George, and Richard Henry (Hal).His father came to Missouri from Parkersburg, Virginia, and bought land in Osage County, Missouri; he was college educated, and served in Virginia legislature.
In 1917, Byoir became a member of the Committee on Public Information, which publicly organized the United States propaganda campaign for World War I. [1] In 1921, Byoir began working in advertising and sales, when E. Virgil Neal , at Nuxated Iron , hired Byoir as a salesman.
Before the United States declared war in 1917, the Woodrow Wilson administration established a propaganda department along similar lines. Propaganda experts Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays participated in the Committee on Public Information (CPI), which was tasked with swaying popular opinion to encourage enlistment and war bond sales. [10]