Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy will give the public "the amount of the over-assessment, a brief summary of the facts and a citation of the applicable statutory or judicial authorities." More important, it will create a new set of public precedents governing tax refunds, which will help to guide taxpayers through the maze that is the Internal Revenue Bureau...
Since 1920 the Department of the Interior has been freely passing out neat permits, at the rate of about 6,000 per year, which set inquisitive oil drills a-rattling on the public domain. Above most of these drills were "wildcatters," adventurous independent prospectors, sending their small assets down the drill holes on the chance of striking a gusher...
...Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
...will make no exceptions,'' ran the General's order to the superintendents, "in enforcing the inflexible rule that girls wearing short skirts or silk stockings or using either lipstick or powder are not allowed to enter any public school...
...which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder committed by someone else. Feeble directing of these elements is compensated chiefly by the beautiful legs of Lila...