biography
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Byoir, Carl (Robert)
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| lived:
| (1888–1957)
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| biography:
| Public relations executive, born in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Among diverse business ventures, including the introduction of Montessori teaching to the USA, he was best known as a public relations specialist. He founded his own public relations agency (1930) that occasionally achieved notoriety: he was charged with Nazi collusion for representing the German Tourist Information Office in the 1930s, and in 1946 he was convicted of violating anti-trust laws with another client, A&P. |
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