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Publicity is so precious to Congressman Church that he will talk for half-an-hour to any reporter rash enough to telephone him. He also disseminates to his constituents a leaflet called This Week in Washington, by Ralph E. Church. Last week, encouraged by success, Representative Church climaxed his public career. On Thanksgiving Eve, when the Senate had already sensibly adjourned, Sam Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would...
About 100 records are listed in the leaflet which I have, the largest number being for first violin with piano, cello, viola and second violin following...
...windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...Manhattan last week there arrived a man with a message. A tall, billiard-ball-pated, 46-year-old Negro named Garland Anderson, he was ready to expound his message gratis for five nights in Town Hall, then proceed to Boston, Philadelphia and anywhere else his message was wanted. A leaflet announced that Garland Anderson's ''World Tour" was sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were...
...over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...