Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each five-page pamphlet, printed in Bulldog blue, is accompanied by a letter signed "I am a Yale man and your very sincere friend, Granville Gates...
...pamphlet begins: "Girls, you lovely creatures, how would you like to stay young and filled with the joy of living with the perfect man of your dreams forever? Of course you would . . . Granville Gates believes nothing is too good for the girls...
...pamphlet, alert to local needs, has also included the "Holyoke Book Shop, 'strategically' located at 19 Dunster Street, Cambridge, Mass., 'to supply students with Marxist publications'. It is also a central controlling point for Communist activity in and around Cambridge, and is a recruiting center for the Young Communist League, both in the college and in the secondary public schools of Cambridge." This all comes from from an old 1938 report of the Massachusetts House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the address in question has been a furniture store for severay lears, but you can't be too careful...
Fulton charged that Edna Brown, state chairman of the Labor Youth League, appeared in opposition to the anti-Red bill, after a pamphlet by Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. interested he rin Communism. Davis attended the Law School, he pointed...
...course of his labors, Editor Mathews restored to a number of words their proper birthright. Though the Oxford Dictionary contends that demoralize is French, Mathews tracked it down to Noah Webster, who used it in a pamphlet on the French Revolution and carefully noted in the margin that he was coining the word. In his own dictionary, Webster also noted the word congressional. But since he attributed it to a man named Barlow, the Oxford editors assumed he meant the 17th Century English bishop. The word was proved an Americanism when Mathews unearthed a letter from Webster...