Background
Curtin, Daniel Thomas was born on January 17, 1886 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel Thomas and Harriet Lillian (White) Curtin.
public relations counsel writer
Curtin, Daniel Thomas was born on January 17, 1886 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel Thomas and Harriet Lillian (White) Curtin.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1910.
; married second, Elizabeth Greiner, 1956. Newspaper reporter, Boston, 1910. Correspondent London Times and Daily Mail, World War, with German, Austrian, Serbian, Russian, Belgian, French, British, Italian and American armies.
Made 6 visits to Germany during war and tramped more than 1,000 miles in that country.
Made lecture tours in the United States since 1919. Investigator European conditions.
Newspaper syndicate and magazine writer on world conditions. Featured, 1931, by National Broadcasting Company as broadcaster and author “Thrillers,” a series of dramatized exploits from his life of adventure.
Creator New York Police Dramas for radio, 1932.
Author Poland Spring radio dramas, 1933. Adapted Charlie Chan for radio, 1933. Reported Ford Exposition of Progress in series over Columbia Broadcasting System, 1933.
Collaborated in Babe Ruth Sports Club radio series, 1933-1934.
Collaborated with Herbert O. Yardley on Black Chamber Radio Dramas, 1935. With Lieutenant James J. Finn, of New York Police, on series of articles on Lindbergh kidnapping, for Liberty Magazine, 1935.
Collaborated “Echoes of New York Town” on National Broadcasting Company, 1937. Investigator and writer on conditions in Mexico, Venezuela and Peru, 1938-1939.
Public relations counsel for McCann-Erickson Detroit, 1940-1941, United States Maritime Commission, 1942-1943.
Director radio and special services War Manpower Commission, 1944, Petroleum Industry Committee, 1945-1946. With coordinator information United States House of Representatives, 1947-1948. Associate director Freedoms Foundation since 1953.
Director Alert American Convoy, nationwide defense show in 83 cities produced by Valley Forge Foundation and American industry in cooperative with Federal Civilian Defense Administration, 1951-1952.
Clubs: Overseas Press (New York).
Married Margaret Goodwin, 1921 (deceased. Married second, Elizabeth Greiner, 1956.