Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quick action without public washing of 'soiled linen' and without ruining the defendant's character, that is my motto!" says Señor del Toro...
...Russia, Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky and in Italy Minister of Education Giuseppe Belluzzo are well-known personages. In France, the Minister of Public Instruction was once famed, grizzled Edouard Herriot; is now M. Pierre Marnaud. In the U. S. the lot of the Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion...
...William John Cooper is a onetime superintendent of public instruction in California, his native State. He is a 32° Mason, a Rotarian. One of his favorite phrases is "the democracy of education," by which he means giving to each student the kind of work he prefers and can do best...
...minions are not wholly occupied by Mr. Geddes' public projects. They also help him to make games. For in esoteric circles gamester Geddes is acclaimed Manhattan's greatest. Auction bridge and poker are dismal to him, and so, with the fervor and precision of a half-mad mathematician, he creates games colossal in scale, appalling in complexity...
Horses were bought and sold, betting was furious. Mr. Geddes found that his home had become a public sporting arena. After he retired for the night, taxicabs would swerve to his doors laden with inebriate racegoers. At last neighbors complained of pandemonium. The game ceased. The apparatus had cost Mr. Geddes $4,000. He was offered $1,000 per night to operate it at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., but he refused...