Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. The public campaign was as plain-spoken as the anti-VD drives directed at servicemen during the war. Motorists in Arkansas found themselves questioned by billboards: "Have you got syphilis?" Barflies put nickels in Washington jukeboxes to hear a Negro quartet sing Put It Down, an appeal to stamp out VD. The Columbia Center was about to issue a recording by Balladeer Tom Glazer of a twangy song called An Ignorant Cowboy. Its last stanza...
Slug It Out. One way & another, the Public Health Service hoped to reach 96^ million people. Among them would be a high proportion of the unreported syphilis victims in the U.S., estimated at 2,000,000. The object was to persuade them to step forward and accept penicillin treatment (one day for gonorrhea, eight for syphilis). P.H.S. knows that the fight against syphilis is being slowly won: against some 220,-ooo new cases each year, 373,296 cases were reported and treated in 1947, and 338,141 last year...
...since before the depression had the opera rested on such a fat financial cushion. When Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and Mrs. Mary Emery died, the purse strings that had long supported the opera were cut. Public support all but failed. In 1934, the wealthy patrons were looking for a way to drop their expensive hobby. The A.F.M. local agreed to take it up. Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers...
...educators had only been toying with the idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
...President Crawford H. Greenewalt, a son-in-law of Irénée du Pont, the charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies] have been a matter of public information for many years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere size is the Government's primary...