Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover scanned the 1931 Budget estimates. They did not make pleasant reading. They showed that the costs of government are continually mounting. Army, Navy, Postal Service and Public Works would cost $300,000,000 more than they had last year. The figures depressed the Hoover hope for tax reduction...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals: "Not . . . revolutionary. . . . Prohibitionists have never believed it is desirable to set up a national police force . . . for the sole purpose of enforcement. . . . Unfortunate word 'modification' . . . interpretation ... to imply that state laws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcoholic content in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution, we believe an entirely mistaken...
...significance of this proposal lay in the fact that until then the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission had studiously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as a crime problem. How did Gov. Roosevelt get such a message? Was it meant for public use? Gov. Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value...
...President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...discussions passed on to other topics, the Governor of North Carolina, talking on special treatment for youthful criminals, found opportunity to show himself more subtle than his thunderous neighbor, with this allusion: "The tendency of American reformers is almost never to teach, to educate public opinion, to convince gradually the citizenry of the value of reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments' and while I suppose that no one would pretend that we really...