Word: leafleting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
Significance. For all his talk, the Field Marshal announced nothing concrete about raw materials, nor did he clarify German-Russian relations. Jeers at the blockade were scarcely enough to a generation that remembered the starvation of 1918. Violence of his denunciations of British leaflet propaganda dumped on Germany suggested an underlying fear of it: "To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect! Chamberlain may know something about umbrellas, but he knows nothing about German propaganda. . . . No, Mr. Chamberlain, we want peace, but giving up the Führer, as others think we might, is too big a price...
Thus read a blurb on a leaflet distributed last week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
...valuable . . .? Of course not. There is something about references and where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves, he has to pay another admission. . . ." > "It would cost very little to give each patron a leaflet with a small map of the building and a brief sketch of the most important things to be seen and where to find them...
Most sensational piece of evidence unearthed by the Guild was a memorandum from Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, found on the desk of Times Auditor Harry Weinstock. The memorandum referred to a Communist leaflet circulated through the Times. It said: "The spies report that some of the auditing people are back of this. Maybe it will amuse Mr. Weinstock to try to find...