Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
...these activities have now become overshadowed by the war. P.B.H.'s War Service Committee is the center of blood and bond drives around the college; it sponsors police forces, fire fighters, and ARP wardens. And in line with its traditional policy of experimentation, Brooks House is now hard at work at its newest project, "contacting" all undergraduates who leave college for the Armed Services, keeping track of their location, readdressing mail, procuring them invitations from families of Harvard men, and keeping them in touch with what is going on in Cambridge...
...Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
...want to know news such as that at the time it is news. Such withholding until circumstances are auspicious - to stir up public feeling during a war-bond drive- makes me sick, and must make thousands of other American citizens extremely cynical and unhappy at the evident mistrust held by responsible authorities of the average American citizen...
...news of Jap treatment of our boys was no news to us. ... I could have thought up better propaganda for bond sales...