Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
Velazco mobilized the entire police force, hunted high & low. He did not find Aguirre Cámara or his printing plant. On schedule, the pamphlet appeared. Entitled Demagogia, Inflación y Armamentismo (Demagoguery, Inflation and Militarism), it passed through the mails in envelopes like those used by Government agencies. Before the police woke up to the trick, it had reached a wide audience. A single copy now brings as much as 1,000 pesos...
Certain occasionally reliable sources who attended the Brooks House Freshman Smoker Wednesday night report that Harvard's newest printed pamphlet, Wake, proudly claims to have been banned in certain sections of nearby Boston. Lilian Smith can move over...
That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...
Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...