Word: public
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
Next the President sent telegrams to all state governors, urging them on to an "energetic, yet prudent, pursuit of public works" as a means of absorbing unemployment...
Each Senator flayed the public character he disliked most. Senator Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared...
...first time put on a definite basis. Questions for a long time unformulated and floating about in the minds of Harvard men are for the first time answered. Some idea of the physical form which the Houses will take for the first time come to the public notice in the pictures released from University Hall...
Twining Lynes, music master at the Groton School, will give the second of a series of public organ recitals at 5 o'clock this afternoon in Appleton Chapel...