Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melhorn's League wants to get Protestants to vote, to enter public life; to disseminate Protestant news; to dramatize Protestantism's part in U. S. history. Denying that it is anti-Catholic, the League also denies that it will make use of boycotts. Said Deputy City Treasurer John Park Lee, chief layman in the League: "Because of Catholic pressure. Americans got only a one-sided report of the Spanish conflict. . . . We must never be guilty of the same thing...
...sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin, gradually wakened a new public love of music. Today, piano makers are enjoying a third peak: and 5,865,000 U. S. families own pianos...
...most effectively vocal defenders of the utilities industry in recent years has been sharp-eyed Charles Wetmore Kellogg, who served two years (1936-38) as unpaid, part-time president of the Edison Electric Institute, the industry's statistical and public relations organization. Last week the Institute revised its setup, voted itself a fulltime, paid ($40,000 a year) president. To Charles W. Kellogg, now 59, who resigned as chairman of Engineers Public Service Co. last week, went the job. His biggest task: to win the public's sympathy for the utilities in their long-standing feud with...
...Hollywood appropriately furnishes the most extravagant miracle. When Producer Kolisher (a ringer for Sam Goldwyn) produces The Redeemer, God becomes interested, takes a hand in the last scenes. Robert Gary, the star, is ruined. Producer Kolisher, who knows how to please the public in spite of miracles, simply cuts God's contribution; critics eulogize his restraint...
...time when an increasingly large share of the energies of the permanent staff is being drained off into the work of the Graduate School of Public Administration, the effectiveness of the Department is thus crippled and the needs of the undergraduate body gravely neglected...