Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a nickel off of a busted customer." Still clear in his mind is the picture of his family's eviction from their farm at Polo when the mortgage was foreclosed. In 1922, year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North...
...Madrid last week it was learned that the Spanish Wine Institute has spent $700 for a set of U. S. telephone books, planning to mail to each & every one of 19,000,000 subscribers a gaudy pamphlet lauding the virtues of Spain's fine wines. In the U. S. last week, as Repeal loomed but one month ahead, liquor dealers were concerned not with the demand for their goods, Spanish or otherwise, but with who was to sell what...
Secondly, Freshmen are liable to be preoccupied in forming congenial groups. The Council recommends that the authorities direct their attention in every way possible to the question of tutors. A paragraph in the pamphlet descriptive of the Houses, where tutors are listed, might call attention to this matter. The Freshmen might then be moved to inquire among upperclassmen and advisers as to the calibre of the various tutors...
...builder and real estate reformer named John Joseph Mangan. He urged householders not to pay their taxes until the city government was purged. Cried he: "Kelly goes around with a prayer book in one hand, an empty bushel basket in the other." Mr. Mangan put out a tiny blue pamphlet called "Sanitary Kelly." Excerpts: "They call the new Mayor 'Sanitary Kelly' because he's so pure, clean and wholesome. He goes to church on Sunday. . . . BUT he was chief engineer of the infamous $1,000,000 bridle path . . . was never brought to trial so he didn...
...Physician to Corporate Bodies"-a title he liked so much that he reprinted the article as a pamphlet. Other writers, hostile to capitalism and pressagentry, have called him "Corporation Dog Rob ber," "Little Brother of the Rich," "Minnesinger to Millionaires," and even "Poison Ivy." Ivy Lee would state his own occupation as "adviser in public relations." Whatever the title, the noteworthy facts are that Ivy Lee first sold the "public relations" idea to Big Business, and made an unequalled personal success...