Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report on to the Cabinet. Meanwhile the formula is conveniently shelved and thus kept out of the political campaigns that are swaying English public opinion in preparation for the coming General Parliamentary Election...
...Chancellor Churchill, thousands of Britons daily continued putting down thousands of sixpence to buy copies of Mr. Lloyd George's Orange Book, a pamphlet explaining how the Liberals hope to end unemployment by putting the unemployed to work on a great state program of road building and other public works. "We mobilized for war, let us mobilize for prosperity!" reads the cover of the Orange Book. Above is a cut showing a huge, smiling Lloyd George, arms outstretched in a gesture suggestive of showering gold-pieces upon gladsome, marching files of tiny soldiers and workmen...
...York Evening World, a Pulitzer paper, went the "most meritorious public service" prize, a $500 gold medal, for combating civic graft...
Subtler but just as resonant as the ballyhooing of the late Phineas Taylor Barnum was the publicity which preceded, last week, the public auction of two Renaissance paintings from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton of Manhattan. The two pictures were hung in a shadowy chamber in the Anderson Galleries. Tall candles gave an air of piety to the occasion. Uniformed Negroes stood gravely beside each canvas, so immobile, so harmonious with the austere gloom, that they were nearly invisible. Visitors hushed their voices, lightened their footsteps...
Thus was the public prepared for a tremendous fiscal-esthetic event. The art world whispered names that would surely stir the auction-Mellon, Bache, Widener, Ringling. Preparations were made to broadcast the epochal proceedings to the nation. When the bald auctioneer briskly mounted the rostrum, he surveyed a tight-packed attendance of more than...