Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building, the Harvard Chamber Ensemble, Nicolas Slonimsky conducting, will present its first concert. The entertainment will be free, and open to the public...
...Harvard singers will give a public performance at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; later in the month a program will be rendered at the home of Mrs. Jack Gardner; and on May 30 Harvard will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, in a concert which will constitute part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Radcliffe's founding. The Glee Club is at present rehearsing the "Hymn to Jesus" by Gustav Hoist for presentation at the last named concert...
...sweeping investigation by a special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and Wall Street." Professor Ripley had paid considerable attention to public utilities, the merger of power companies, the pyramiding of holding companies and their financial practices, and the growth of interstate power; and raised the question whether the time had not come for Federal regulation of the electrical industry, so rapidly assuming an interstate character...
...Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was the outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...
...investigation disclosed that the New England Bureau of Public Service Information, maintained by gas, electric and other utilities, and located in Boston, sent out in one year propaganda to 289 schools in New England. The literature bore the slogan. "For use of school students, English, current topics, and debating classes." Since the investigation this slogan has been removed...