Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this side Opposing them in deflance. Mrs. E. Linden, Radcliffe '30, Miss Lingerfelter. Radcliffe '31, and C. W. Lightbody 1G of Toronto University and Worcester College, Oxford, will take the floor. Professor Garrod of Merton College, Oxford, has kindly consented to preside. As the debate is open to the public and the motion is to be thrown open to the house, Back Bay is expected to be present in full force to back the Radcliffe cohort...
Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near the end. But I am thinking of the men 20 years younger than myself [he is 70]. . . . Who would not have laughed at a man that 20 years ago had attempted to picture to the world the terrible orgy of slaughter of 1914-18? . . . It may not even come from...
Chief Laboratory Assistant Frederick Ott is the sturdy mechanician who for 43 years has supervised experiments on Inventor Edison's ideas. The man who has for 19 years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce...
...Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...
...long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire hazards such as in dormitories, henceforth Goucher girls might smoke when, where, and as much as they pleased. Said he: "It was found that enforcement of the rule forbidding the young woman to smoke in public places required snooping and tattling, incompatible with the dignity of the college...