Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended their pamphlet press runs...
...that followed the restoration of Charles II, the masterly diplomacy that saved them from punishment for their support of Cromwell. In 1643, Roger Williams had sold his trading house in Narragansett, which earned him ?100 annually, to raise money for a trip to England, where he wrote an influential pamphlet, served Cromwell, was rewarded with a charter that enabled him to come home and depose wealthy Rhode Island colonists planning a coup d'etat. After the Restoration, Rhode Island promptly hailed the King, raised ?200 to send an emissary to negotiate a new charter. This unfortunate, self-sacrificing...
Plans for an investigation of the working conditions of labor in Cambridge were laid last night by the Labor Relations Committee of the Student Union. Results of the survey will be published next spring in a pamphlet...
With only nine business candidates for the Fall pamphlet of the 1940 Red Book reporting yesterday to chairman W. Perrin Fuller, Jr. '40, at least 11 more are earnestly solicited to help make this first annual of the revised plan a success...
...publication of the Red Book in pamphlet form in the fall of the year, with the names, pictures, schools, and homes of the class of 1940, meets a crying need of both students and University officials that has been both evident and advocated many times. In past years the Red Book has not appeared until May and, consequently, has been of no use for identification or organization purposes until that time, when it was too late for the seasoned Freshman to do much more than gaze at the pictures and read of the activities of his classmates before they scattered...