Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa will cross from America to England within...
...public funeral was held the next morning. The president of the Village Soviet, slightly conscience-stricken, allowed the local priest to officiate...
Miss Glenna Collett, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, women's national golf champion, is ranked first among the 1,237 feminine players of the metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...
...must repeat in his sleep, "bigger and better." This year many old favorites are back including Lillian Leitzel, pretty enough for Mr. Ziegfeld to glorify, who twists and turns on a rope; and Goliath, the sea elephant, who has gained exactly one ton since last seen by his adoring public. This year there are many new acts, not the least astounding of which is that in which a man is shot from a cannon into a net more than 200 ft. away. He is Ugo Zacchini. He and his brother served in the Italian artillery during the War. They wondered...
...FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan's chief, must remember that it is FREDERICK ECKER who heads what President Hoover once termed "the greatest single institution devoted to public welfare." The Metropolitan has in force some $16,000,000,000 of insurance from some 40,000,000 policies; its income is approximately $2,000,000 a day. In the appointment of Mr. Ecker to its presidency, the Metropolitan selected no outsider, no Professional Executive, to handle its gigantic business...