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...Phillips has the vigorous backing of the A. A. P. A. which has lately run its Pennsylvania membership up from 1,000 to 40,000. He is making a loud, strenuous campaign, has sent cars equipped with loudspeakers all over the State to broadcast his Wet appeal...
About the house where Mother Jones lay was much bustle. The local Bakers Union was preparing a 100-candle cake. Pilgrims were to be received, apparatus installed for a radio broadcast of a May Day message by the "Grand Old Woman of Labor" to her oldtime followers...
Animal noises seldom before broadcast, have often and with great success been reproduced in sound films. Rin Tin Tin made his first public barks last month (TIME, April 14). Last week, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Co. was developing talkies of seals just made in Labrador and Raymond Ditmars, famed curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, who has already made a sound film of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, was preparing to make a talkie in an anthill...
...Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only one): to the President of the U. S. and his wife...
Unquestionably this is the case. The academic side of a university does not receive the publicity that other phases do. Occasionally this is caused by the unwillingness of a specific department to broadcast its findings, believing that the interested parties will soon learn of its progress. But almost without, exception the lack of publicity can be attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars...