Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czech Cavells. In London, former Czecho-Slovak President Dr. Eduard Benes predicted that the Prague executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
Last week the memory of these Stockbridge bravos brought a sold-out house to Dorothy Maynor's first public recital, at Manhattan's Town Hall. Bronze, cherub-faced Diva Dorothy soon showed that her Stockbridge judges had not been far wrong, but had been a little premature. When she was through, Manhattan's critics huddled in the lobby, agreed that the Voice had a rough edge here & there, prophesied a sensational future...
Around 1910-when basketball began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office...
...neutral Washington suggestions are pouring into the War and Navy Departments and to the Patent Office. The military and naval authorities are chary of discussing these whizzbangs, but the details of a patented idea naturally become public knowledge. Some U. S. war patents...
...land's biggest corporations to their successors. It was a fine thing for G.E. to have as board chairman one who forced down the throats of European politicos a 70% reduction in German reparations, and who was now & then mentioned for the U. S. Presidency as a public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees in Washington. To become such public figures G.E.'s new heads, unknown...