Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of dust, Eve from one of his ribs, could they have had navels? The question is almost as old as Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10? popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just as capable as any other...
...girl and four men were sentenced to three to 20 years for distributing a pamphlet which attacked President Wilson's policy of intervention in Russia. A Mrs. Clark remarked: "I wish Wilson was in hell, and if I had the power, I would put him there." The court which tried her held that the President could not be in hell unless dead; Mrs. Clark had therefore threatened the President's life and was guilty of sedition...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...Y.M.C.A. and Negro and labor organizations which sponsored the pamphlet The Races of Mankind, attacking Nazi racial doctrines, were gloomy when the U.S.O. banned it (TIME, Jan. 31). Then the Army bought 55,000 copies and total sales mounted to 290,000. This week the Army banned the pamphlet...
Andrew Jackson May, House Military Affairs Committee chairman, claimed credit for this military triumph. His Kentucky blood had been roused by a statement in the pamphlet based on World War I Army intelligence-test figures. These showed that Negroes from New York. Illinois and Ohio (with better schooling and economic luck) got higher intelligence scores than whites from Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky...