Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...
Frederick Trubee Davison was asked a few days after the Long Island Club's opening, to be chairman of the National Governing Board of Aviation Country Clubs. A very busy public official he could not answer at once...
...imitate a human being and not recreate one. . . . However, the radio, the phonograph and the talking picture are almost uncanny in their reproductions. ... I believe [sound pictures] will raise the standard of both. The concert and the opera have always attracted the more discriminating part of the entertainment seeking public and such people will probably become even more discriminating...
...Public-school-teaching members of the National Education Association, 6,000 strong, opened last week in Atlanta's municipal auditorium what they proudly called "the most important educational conference in our history...
Propaganda. For many a month N. E. A. members have waited for their association's formal statement about propaganda in the schools. Chief alleged propagandizers: public utility corporations, which have been accused of bribing teachers, changing text books to make private ownership of such utilities seem desirable to students, future voters. Last November, the N. E. A. appointed a committee to investigate. Last week the committee's chairman, Philadelphia Superintendent of Schools Edwin Cornelius Broome. reported that "efforts are being made from a wide variety of sources to advertise commercial products, advance special interests, and to propagate particular...