Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funnyman Ade's theme-song in this backward-glancing booklet: "Not wet-not dry-just history." No believer in the saloon's return, he can call up visions of its past with a dry eye, a drily humorous tongue. Though he gives a fair imitation of a man straddling the Prohibition fence, on p. 162 he drops over on the Wet side, admits to membership in the Association Against the 18th Amendment...
...have to worry whether or not the money came in, Publisher Gannett's line of appeal was remarkably insistent. Unlike Publisher Hearst, he ordered his own employes to sell the stock. To each went a circular letter, a booklet of selling hints and a blank prospect list. The letter, signed by the publisher, read in part: "We expect every employee of the company to turn in at least 24 names." The booklet suggested such prospects as "Your relations. . . . People your relatives can suggest. . . . Personal friends. . . . People with whom you trade. . . . Members of your club or lodge. . . ." The prospect list...
President Hoover and TIME were talking about the American Red Cross. True it is that Jean Henri Dunant published in 1862 a booklet, Un Souvenir de Solferino, lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with...
...plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane. So many people wrote for a description of cellophane that duPont had to print a special booklet...
Upon newsstands last week appeared a booklet bearing on its cover a photograph of the wrecked plane, and this legend in red and black: 'UNCENSORED TRUTH ABOUT ROCKNE'S STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...