Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either listened in or read the speech as soon as it was printed.* There was not much in the speech that any alert publisher could not have prophesied beforehand. President Hoover's biggest project is Law Enforcement. He urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly: "I put the question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device in such discussion. ... Its effect is as misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation...
...export debenture plan. They dutifully assembled all possible arguments, which President Hoover then consolidated in a ten-point broadside against the plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export...
Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
...sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large invested capital are concerned about the future of the pleasure boat industry unless public confidence can be restored." To still the troubled waters of yachting, Commandant Billard, a determined officer with a "sense of duty," last week addressed a public communication to: "All Yachtsmen and Amateur Motor Boat Men." This message, issued a few hours before the Miami River episode, said...
...later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...