Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Federal Trade Commission was serving up the facts on big business (see above), a Cleveland businessman last week provided a pamphlet case history on why his Allied Oil Co. was swallowed up by a bigger company...
...Right Road for Britain took a stand against nationalization of industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose...
Party Leader Winston Churchill went last week to industrial Wolverhampton, where he made what Americans would call a campaign keynote speech. He paraphrased the pamphlet, which he had helped to write. In the past, Churchill has used the slogan "Set the people free" with good effect. He tried it again last week, with qualifications. Said Churchill: "We mean to set the people free, so far as possible and as soon as possible." He warned that if Socialism causes Britain's economic collapse, "we shall carry many other nations with us into chaos and Communism." He refurbished a famous Churchill...
...witness stand was Daily Worker Editor John Gates (born Saul Regenstreif), one of the eleven Communists accused of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had just asked him who were the authors of a pamphlet issued by the party's National Veterans Committee. He and others had prepared it, Gates answered. Who were the others, McGohey wanted to know. Gates flared up: "Those people work in private industry. I will not disclose their names and jeopardize their jobs...
Y.P.A. said it had put out its pamphlet in defiance of the rule, which it branded "prior censorship." Dean James Peace stated that leaflet material must not contain facts that cannot be substantiated, poor English or obscene language, opinion labelled as fact, or libel. "This does not constitute prior censorship," he said. The suspension has been lifted...