Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the news reached the press, George S. Wilson, District Director of Public Welfare, ordered the rides to cease. Edward L. McNamara, another trusty, now rides with the prison doctor. Morris Massa Barnard, superintendent...
District penal institutions, explained that the rides were merely jail routine. Said he: "The board of Public Welfare felt, however, that the publicity given Sinclair's assignment made it unwise to continue him in that capacity. It is very unfortunate that this should happen, for some people will regard the board's order as an act of discrimination against Mr. Sinclair...
...little has the public heard of tourists returning from abroad who fail to declare the full value of their purchases, hoping to cheat the Government of its legal customs dues. Next to nothing has the public heard of the Government mulcting tourists of from 30% to 40% more in tariff duties than is legally collectible. Recently persons not so ignorant of the law as the average tourist began to make in- quiries. Last week, Customs officials publicly admitted that tourists have for years paid millions of dollars more in tariff duties than the law authorizes. "Ah," said cynics, "the shoes...
Last week, aroused by the public's discovery, officials began to seek to relieve the injustice. Commissioner of Customs F. X. A. Eble visited Manhattan, suggested that duties lower than the regular rate be charged tourists; e.g., that if a man brought in $125 worth of foreign goods, he be allowed his usual $100 exemption and then be taxed, say, 25% ($6.25) instead of, say, 90% ($22.50). The objections to this proposal are that $125 worth of goods at wholesale rates are worth $80 or $85 and should not be taxed at all; that such an arbitrary scaling down...
...scene of activities. Father John O'Grady of Washington, D. C., who was in New Orleans when the strike began and tried unsuccessfully to mediate, succeeded at last after consultations in Manhattan with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and with officials of the Public Service Co., and local union leaders...