Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drives the dark Lincoln limousine, on the door of which can still be faintly discerned the outline of stars and an eagle which once composed the Presidential seal. At a proper discount, Citizen Coolidge bought his White House car from the U. S. and now stores it in a public garage at $15 per month...
...second major proposal of last week was offered on behalf of Germany. It envisions an international agreement pledging every nation to make public all details concerning its armaments. Although very unpopular among the Allied Powers, this plan cannot be ignored as offered in "bad faith," because it happens to be only a very slight extension of Article VIII of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which provides that League states must confide to each other all about their armaments, though in practice they never...
...unless he speaks fluently both French and English. Classes are conducted either in French or English. Thus Assumption has won the sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek...
...Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent in 200,000 recipes, bale on bale of labels. By July 1, the season's left-over cans were reduced to 500,000. This year packers have collected $250,000 to use in further educating the public in the mysteries of Pink (as opposed to Red) salmon. U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries O'Malley officially opened the campaign with a lecture on the Pink salmon, obligingly giving special attention to its eatable qualities. He pointed at what all experienced salmon-eaters know: that no dyed...
Married. Henry Latham Doherty, 58. of Manhattan, self-made public utilities and oil tycoon (Cities Service Co., Henry L. Doherty & Co.), "richest U. S. bachelor"; and Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, 40, relict of an International Harvester Co. foreign official; secretly, on Dec. 31 last; in Toronto. Mrs. Eames had nursed Tycoon Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails...