Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Limited. With two hours to kill, he went to a cinema. Detectives picked him up as he came out, took from him a .38 calibre revolver, courteously escorted him to police headquarters. Bail was set at $35,000. At midnight he was questioned by Director of Public Safety Lemuel B.Schofield and made these statements...
Jersey City, N. J., once a little aristocrat among U. S. cities, now a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood, low politics and eager business men whose affairs are deeply complicated by those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three...
...cost of the U. S. Army of Occupation, 143 millions in mixed claims. Last year the U. S. received from Germany 20 million dollars. Though the details of the U.S. "sacrifice offer," as contained in a note despatched to the U. S. Embassy at Paris, were not immediately made public, it was learned that they amounted to about a 10% reduction in Germany's annual payments to the U. S. Though total payments were not to be cut, the U. S. was ready to allow Germany a longer time to meet them...
Drink. President Portes Gil turned next to Prohibition, the object of his latest enthusiasm. He issued a lengthy document explaining the steps by which he hopes to wean Mexico from the pulque bottle. He created a national committee, with the Secretary of Public Health at its head, to carry these steps out. The steps...
...Free instruction of school children, in public and private schools alike, on the Evils of the Drink Habit. All textbooks, irrespective of subject, to carry a lecture against the use of alcohol...