Word: leaflets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned yesterday that Ku Klux Klan leaflets similar to literature recently passed around in neighboring towns, had been distributed in mail boxes in University dormitories. This leaflet consists of a picture of a man on horseback with the caption, "The Ku Klux Khan rides again". Copies of the Courier, the official magazine of the Khan were also distributed...
Opportunities open in the field of secondary-school administration for men who are choosing a career are to be shown in a leaflet published by the Graduate School of Education, as in a series of pamphlets on professional careers...
...Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest to sign it. Congressman De Priest promptly declined. When other Negro leaders likewise declined to sign, Mayor Thompson...
Excerpts from the main text of the Thompson leaflet...
Admitting that he originated the leaflet Mayor Thompson explained that Mrs. McCormick had deserted his presidential candidacy at the Republican National Convention in 1928. He added: "As long as I am permitted to live I will never betray the people of Chicago by voting for any member of the McCormick family for anything...