Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Grotewohl got his answer in a pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...
...government was making plans in case of nuclear attack to evacuate 12 million persons, shouts of "Where to?" cannoned all over the Labor side of the House. "Areas of least concentration," replied Monckton lamely. Former War Secretary John Strachey dryly reminded him that his own ministry's pamphlet showed that "a bomb dropped on Liverpool would be lethal as far as the east coast...
...Congressional committee exceeded its jurisdiction. Besides Judge Aldrich's own decision to acquit Kamin on two counts last November, the most recent occurred in 1953 when the Supreme court said in the Rumely case that an investigation of lobbying did not allow Congress a general mandate to investigate pamphlet-publishing...
Randolph takes on all comers. When most dailies ignored his speeches attacking "the river of pornography" in the press, he printed the talks in a shilling pamphlet called "What I Said About the Press." Later he stung the Press Council, the British newspapers' own watchdog on press ethics, into scolding Daily Sketch Editor Herbert Gunn for changing an adverse criticism of a movie that his wife helped make into a favorable review. By then Randolph was busily battling the trade weekly, World's Press News for suppressing the story of that dispute because, wrote Randolph, its boss...
...trust funds," the Association maintains that its aim is to "restore and develop a leading institution in the horticultural field." With more than 1000 members, including several distinguished alumni, the Association has established a Boston office from which it launches expensive legal maneuvers and a steady, but subdued, pamphlet campaign. Part garden-club sentimentality and part sensible concern for the future of Botany at Harvard, the Association continues its fight to force a judicial hearing on the legality of the Corporation's action...