Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading room of the public library I noticed the sign, "Because someone is continually stealing TIME, it must be kept at the desk. Ask for it." There is free publicity for you. For several years I have known you are a genius but I never realized you would drive a person to such moral laxity...
...great advocate of The Home during the campaign, President Hoover has surprised nobody by the fewness of his appointments of women to public offices. But lately he put aside his feeling against women as officeholders long enough to listen to arguments by his Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon in behalf of Miss Annabel Matthews of Gainesville, Ga. The arguments seemed so irresistible that President Hoover last week appointed Miss Matthews to the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ($10,000 per year), the first woman ever named to this potent buffer agency between the Treasury and the taxpayer...
...East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
...appreciate highly the great honor. . . . I will accept . . . as soon as my public obligations already assumed have been discharged. . . . I will be a candidate in the Republican primary. . . . I will give my best to State and Nation...
...There was much speculation in Japanese . . . circles as to the reason for his [Adams'] absence. . . . A second conference is to be held, but the name of the Secretary of the Navy is not on the list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert...