Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Roanoke gathering was the political child of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
Made in Germany, imported to France, is the cult of Nudism, a mulligan stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle...
...last week Nudism was again in the public eye. It was announced with complete gravity that suave M. Andre de Fouquieres, arbiter elegantarium, had joined the "Committee of Action" of Nudism, that he was a most earnest and enthusiastic apostle...
...social welfare Daniel Guggenheim turned in 1919, when he was 63. To the welfare of aviation he turned two Junes before Lindbergh flew to Paris. His aim was to make aviation a public utility. He gave New York University $500,000 for a School of Aeronautics. Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities...
...have also passed upon the amorous activities of Mr. Acosta in a previous case, . . when another divorce was secured, so I judge he is a most active man in other people's families when he is not aviating. It is about time he was eliminated from all public activities...