Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the fall of France, when they realized that it would not be long until Hitler began to bomb Britain, the British began to bomb Germany seriously. The first bombing (as distinct from pamphlet) raid on Berlin occurred Aug. 25. Of the 23 bombing raids on Berlin up to this week, nine have taken place since Oct. 1, when lengthening nights made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation...
...pamphlet entitled "Vote for Peace," which will be distributed throughout the College today, the Browder Ford Club announced that although they were not Communists, they were "forced to the conclusion that only by voting for the Communist candidates can the American people express their true sentiments on these issues...
...Every vote for Browder and Ford will serve as an unequivocal warning to candidates of the major parties that we oppose all steps leading to war and fascism," the pamphlet says...
...mimeographed sheets, headed "Speakers Bureau," were presumably intended to be used as a thesis for speeches to colored voters. Of even more interest was a companion piece, which also emanated from Colored Division headquarters, an eleven-page printed pamphlet bearing the title "Let's Follow Thru," with halftone cuts of Roosevelt and Willkie, the record of the New Deal, and an anti-Willkie blast which drew heavily on the "smear" statements in the mimeographed pages. The pamphlet, a slick job with a neat layout, had obviously been prepared by a master chef. One day last week the whole mess...
Each trainee received a Government pamphlet telling him that baseball and football teams would shortly be organized and that everyone would be given Sundays and Saturday afternoons off, thus bringing down the period in camp from 30 days to 22 of actual training. Jewish youths were told they might have all day Saturday off to celebrate the Day of Atonement. In the camps no beer is served-Canadian church groups successfully protested. But in most areas trainees could buy whatever they liked to drink at nearby hotels. At most camps parade drill on the first day took the form...