Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the Public Health service opened a special drive on rats in Washington. Despite his objection to drives in general, President Hoover did not object because two of the animals had recently frisked on the lawn back of his office...
...always these public services have been rendered with a private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...
...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes the strikers sent a telegram: TO MEET PUBLIC DEMAND TO END THE STRIKE WE PROPOSE THAT ALL QUESTIONS AND DISPUTES BE SETTLED BY A BOARD OF ARBITRATION. Officials refused to arbitrate, 18 superintendents of New York cemeteries having agreed that the strike was unjustified...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
Samuel Insull, foremost public utilitarian of the Midwest,* last week became the dominant textile miller of Maine. Martin Insull, his brother and second-in-command, announced the purchase by Insull-controlled New England Public Service Co. of four Maine cotton plants including Bates Manufacturing Co. at Lewiston...