Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
When Julius Albert Krug was called in to replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems...
...mine operators into hard and adamant opposition to his demands for higher pay and a bigger slice of royalties for his U.M.W. welfare fund. The fund itself had dwindled until it was necessary to cut off all but emergency benefits-at the worst possible time. He had alienated the public and angered most officials in Washington. And the Supreme Court, in an ironically timely decision, had reaffirmed the $1,420,000 fine imposed on him and his union last year...
...still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide what can and should...
...ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for advice. The cardinal gravely informed the tribunal that a bathing-suit parade, public or private, would be contrary to religion and modesty. The girls appeared fully clothed...