Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inevitable were thoughts of the still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able...
...years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...
...first 25 years of his ownership, Publisher Ochs made the paper produce $100,000,000, more than 90 millions of which he poured back into the property for expansion and improvement. Last year it printed more than 30,000,000 lines of advertising, for which the public paid from 55? to $10.00 per line...
...there are no bonds or mortgages-is owned outright by him, his immediate family and his employes, past and present. He retains his Chattanooga paper because it was his first. Once he was tempted to buy and merge other papers. He took over two Philadelphia sheets and made the Public Ledger, which he sold to Magazine Tycoon Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
Stokowski is said never to read the newspapers, to disdain his public. Nevertheless, he scheduled for his next and last New York concert, a sure-fire Bach-Wagner program...