Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville. Famed for the so-called Callahan Correspondence, consisting of letters between Patrick Callahan and more important public personages, which he mimeographs and broadcasts for editorial quotation, Mr. Callahan was the outstanding Roman Catholic opponent of the Brown Derby last year on the single issue of liquor. He has long been the moving spirit in an Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibition. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, began as a movement chiefly among Protestants. The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education joined its potent propagandizing arm (Department of Moral Welfare) with 30 other temperance organizations including the Anti...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates said last spring, 'We are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism.' " Next day Socialist Cohen told newsgatherers he expected his father, said to be a wealthy Manhattan attorney, would disinherit him because "he has no sympathy with my statements...
...Just imagine ! No public Coney Island at this time of year. But I want to see the working class amusing themselves, so maybe I can visit some big sporting event...
...character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag was draped in black, his desk piled high with flowers, but the instinctive reaction of editors and public alike was "Who in Germany can take his place?" Said Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts: "The problem of finding a worthy successor to Dr. Stresemann is one of life and death to Germany...
Born in Cambridge, Mass., son of a Universalist pastor, Otis Skinner soon moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn. There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading...