Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officials emphatically denied that any such split up was under consideration. Also, with momentous significance, these officials called attention to President Walter S. Gifford's 1928 report. In this report, President Gifford said: "The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. accepts its responsibility for nationwide telephone service as a public trust. Its duty is to provide the American public with . . . service at a reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming...
...that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which is not currently productive. No such sums are spent, for example, in New York's cloak and suit hagglery...
...philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William...
Members discussed whether they should be allowed to broadcast A. P. news?some holding that this cut newspaper sales, others that it provoked public demand for more news...
...Double and triple wire facilities were supplied to carry daily reports of the New York stock and bond markets throughout the country to satisfy the bullish public...