Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haganah also carried its fight to New York last week, lashed out at remote-control Terrorist Ben Hecht and his American League for a Free Palestine. In a full-page advertisement, Haganah asked the public not to contribute to what it called "Traitors, Inc." "With your money," said the ad, "the Irgun and Stern groups killed 81 Britons, 59 Arabs and 42 Jews during the last eight months. . . . Every time Ben Hecht 'makes a holiday in his heart' Ernest Bevin sends in more reinforcements. . . .Haganah has repatriated 34,000 Jews to Palestine, the American League for a Free...
...Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...
...many years ago, ad-hungry radio stations in U.S. small towns occasionally shut their eyes and accepted such commercials as this (a veiled ad for a local bawdy house). Today, an outfit called the Keystone Broadcasting System has brought the "coffee pots" and "light bulbs" such a haul of national advertising that they can turn down ads for Tessie...
...American who wrote the ad made front pages on two continents. The British Government protested officially. Britons called it an incentive to murder. U.S. Zionists attacked it. Last week, in the midst of other duties, Harry Truman implored U.S. citizens to shush inflammatory Palestine talk of all kinds "in the interests of this country, of world peace, and of humanity." But it might take more than the President of the U.S. to shush Ben Hecht...
...Standard commented: "Near obscene terms . . . power lusts." Hecht came close to an apology-for him. He sent a "Letter to the People of Britain," later published as another fund-inviting ad in U.S. papers. The "Letter" began...