Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot, have read it a million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying to break into it ever since he reached his majority...
...Rudolph Krohne of Berlin last week asked the President to attend the International Advertising Association's convention in that city next August. Instead of accepting, President Hoover wrote a letter commending advertising ethics to Charles Clark Younggreen, the association's president. Mr. Younggreen, overjoyed, made the letter public two months before the convention...
...Senator Vandenberg went the public credit of insistently driving this measure through a reluctant Senate. It was his first major activity since coming to the Senate a year ago. Born in Grand Rapids 45 years ago, at the age of 22 Senator Vandenberg became the editor-publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, a position he held until he became a Senator. A bookish man behind large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases...
Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...
Often enough has one politician threatened to tattle on another's wet-dry habits. Never has an organization, especially of women, set out officially to expose such public officials...