Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version of it shows up incidentally but rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...most significant and authoritative contributions to the philosophy of the New Deal is to be found in a pamphlet by Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, which was released this week. As one of the men closest to the President, whatever Mr. Wallace has to say carries particular weight, and in this statement he has a great deal to say. It is couched in broad and general terms, and it is, unless I am greatly mistaken, the clearest adumbration of what Mr. Roosevelt's future policy, foreign as well as domestic, is going to be, that has yet appeared...
...average Overseers' Visiting Committee plays no very active part in the affairs of its department, and if this committee is typical, its influence may be mercifully passive. But a department whose most notable piece of work since the depression began was the recent pamphlet attacking the recovery program, is in need of some sort of visitation, and not the type that this committee is likely to supply...
...Fascist presses last week rolled a new pamphlet form of marriage certificate, now being issued to Italian newlyweds. After the names of bride and groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head...
...dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants...