Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund-raising pamphlet put out by the University of Houston in 1937 was like hundreds of others. But one of them fell on very good ground: into the hands of a multimillionaire named Hugh Roy Cullen. Oilman Cullen thumbed it through, over & over again. He was fascinated by the story of a "typical" job-holding student-a boy who worked and studied from 6:45 each morning until 11:10 each night. "That," said Hugh Cullen, "is the kind of people I want to help...
...Attlee. Over the transatlantic phone, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell (attending the Washington and Ottawa conferences of the Big Three and NATO Council) told the Prime Minister that the dollar situation looked blacker than ever. Then came news that Nye Bevan and his party rebels were publishing a pamphlet, "Going Our Way," inciting trade unions to break with Attlee's policies. Finally Attlee announced: "I consider that the time has now come to ask the electors for a renewal of confidence in the government ... I have therefore asked His Majesty the King, for whose speedy restoration to full...
...leading agitators of the 1948 Communist revolt was an unsavory little Chinese gambler named Wang Jen-shu, then 39, author of a pamphlet titled "How to Overthrow the Present Government and Achieve a Communist State." Last year, Wang came back to Indonesia as Red Chinese ambassador. He set about importing professional organizers (as part of his embassy staff), reviving the native Communist Party, building up what neighboring governments regard as Communist headquarters for Southeast Asia...
Endowment outlook for institutions of higher learning should be looking up in '51 according to a pamphlet just released by the National Planning Association...
Sears, Roebuck and Company, Ford Motor Company, Bulova Watch, and R. H. Macy & Company are cited by the pamphlet as already taking advantage of the tax incentive scheme to further educational projects...