Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany it is guns-instead-of-butter, but the French Finance Minister called last week for guns instead of public works, the dole or leaf raking. He cried: "A country which next year is going to spend 25 billions of francs for national defense cannot afford the luxury of great public works. Machine guns are more necessary today-alas-than stone fountains for villages." Paul Reynaud insisted that the 32 decrees stop just short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon...
...Though they constitute one-third of the population, Jews hold less than 5% of the public jobs...
...Public dancing, which the Father of All Turks had introduced enthusiastically as a part of his Westernization program, was canceled in Turkey on the night the President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
Slim, grey-mustached Ellwood Patterson ("Dad") Cubberley, dean emeritus of Stanford University's School of Education, is dean of historians of U. S. education. He wrote or edited the famed 100 Riverside Textbooks in Education and besides wrote 18 others. His best seller, Public School Administration, sold some 100,000 copies. Professors who write widely-used texts make a lucrative business of writing textbooks, but last year 70-year-old Ellwood Cubberley did an unprecedented thing with his textbook profits. He gave Stanford's School of Education a new $535,000 building...
...plans to convert its experiments into a regular program service in April, has not yet put any television receivers on public sale...