The CPI organized a speaker's bureau of seventy-five thousand people, known as the "Four-Minute Men." They traveled all over the country making short speeches to rally the public for the war effort. By 1918 they were being told to make liberal use of war atrocity stories in their speeches. Creel recruited advertising experts and prominent journalists such as Ida M. Tarbell, Ernest Poole, Ray Stannard Baker, and Will Irwin to publish a daily newspaper with a circulation of one hundred thousand, known as the Official Bulletin. A government wire service supplied official information from all over the world. To some observers Creel expertly mobilized every form of communication in the cause of the war. To others he incited the "righteous wrath" of the public against the "Hun" and the "Boche." Writer Raymond B. Fosdick (who was also head of the Commission on Training...