Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large cities nine* had not a single typhoid death last year. In 1927 there were seven such zero cities. One of them, Yonkers. has had no deaths from typhoid during four separate years. Another, Tacoma, last year had no diphtheria death, a remarkable effect of good public health administration. And Tacoma in 1927 had been the worst typhoid city of its northwest district. Memphis and Nashville have their distinction in the typhoid record. They had the worst rates per 100,000 population in the U. S.-15 for Nashville. 11.6 for Memphis.† Nearly as bad were El Paso...
...Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered...
...Newsgatherer Bath would not have seen the new arrivals attend church services Sunday morning, for, though servants, town characters, village gossips crowded the little North Haven Chapel to overflowing, neither a Morrow nor Pilot Lindbergh worshipped in public that...
...good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...
Published by famed Bernarr Macfadden (pink tabloid Graphic, lurid confessional magazines), the new daily - New York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid...