Word: publication
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday school man." Lawyer Carpenter told the jury he was defending Gastonia. "where the dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called...
From extra fares, U. S. railroads derive an additional revenue of approximately $10,000,000 per year. Their stout claim, supported by heavy advance sale of "limited" tickets, is that the traveling public gladly pays the extra fare in return for superior accommodations, extra speed. Some famed limited trains, their routes, their times, their extra fares: New York Central. 20th Century Limited (and three similar trains), New York & Chicago in 20 hr.-$9.60. Southwestern Limited, New York & St. Louis...
...Oilman Rockefeller Jr., Tireman Firestone, Cineman Hays, Secretary of War Good. Railmen Crowley (New York Central). Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Loree (Delaware & Hudson), Willard (Baltimore & Ohio). Worldwide were the refractions of the Light Jubilee and Hero Edison's glory. In European and South American countries were held illumination displays, banquets, public lectures, exhibitions...
...eight members of the Federal Farm Board settled back securely in their swivel chairs last week as the Senate, after seven hours public haggling, confirmed their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late, its members' first pay checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie...
...thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that, bawdiness, is the criterion of success. The day after Sophomore Clark's Chinaman-mauling and Jew-baiting, the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily, editorialized: ". . . Public drunkenness which results in conduct objectionable to non-participants has grown to be looked upon in modern societies as a violation of taste and public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display of drinking...