Word: leaflets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bureau, which produces all printed material except radio and cable news, believes that an air-dropped leaflet is more to the citizen of an occupied country than radio news. A leaflet-or a package of matches-is physical evidence that the U.S. is there...
Turmoil. Whatever WLB's eyers wind up with, most Clevelanders know the local Alcoa situation inside out: for years the vast, high-fenced plant sprawled along Harvard Avenue has been a turmoil of union drives, union lawsuits, strikes, riots. Marching pickets, yelping organizers and busy leaflet distributors have been around the plant so often that the place looks deserted when they are gone. The union has organized and reorganized, but a few union bigwigs have been around a long time...
...material which the state will present as libelous is contained in a leaflet printed by his "Yankee Freemen," which said that Roosevelt's policy was "subversive of the Yankee tradition," and called the administration "wasters of the peoples' money, wreckers of the republic and the blood-stained assassins of our soldiers and sailors...
...without dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry, but indestructible." Relieved of its pamphleteering and moralizing...
...last battle. One thing he does not want to see when that time comes is the helpless confusion that clogged France's roads, paved the way for German victory last year. Mr. Churchill's thoughts this week crystallized in a foreword to a leaflet, Beating the Invader, telling 46,000,000 Britons how to behave when and if the Nazis come...