Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...
...82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members, called the Admiral's resignation "a publicity stunt." Admiral Sims retorted that he was made an honorary member at the Boston convention in 1931, had a medal to prove...
...London last year at the Indian Round Table Conference, Dr. Ambdekar scornfully denied the Mahatma's claim that he (Gandhi) represented the Untouchables as well as the rest of India. When Mr. Gandhi announced his fast Dr. Ambdekar, addressing the advisory Indian Legislative Assembly, called it "a political stunt." Soon afterward Dr. Ambdekar began to break down, saying that perhaps Mr. Gandhi had solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond...
Little (5 ft. 2 in.) Jack Little's stunt is playing the piano in a blithe, easy fashion. Cheer dominates his programs but not so blatantly as it does most of radio's early morning offerings. He lets his fingers do most of the talking, embroidering tunes all over the keyboard, breaking rhythms, holding them steady. Like most radio headliners, his voice is so small that he has to use an amplifier when he sings on the stage. But he can put a song over in what he calls an "intimate parlor baritone," and in many a parlor...
...spectacular dash to the Capitol (TIME. June 6). His belated and ambiguous recommendation for a "general manufacturers' excise" tax the Senate impatiently brushed aside. Long after his return to the White House, Senators orated angrily against his sudden visit to their chamber, called it an unnecessary publicity stunt...