Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first year as a salesman (1886). New York Life agents celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company in 1930 by launching a three-month Buckner testimonial drive which netted $5,000,000 of life insurance each day. Last week with President Buckner's approval, the company finished a pamphlet commemorating its 90th anniversary. When Director Hoover gets his copy he will see that Thomas Buckner emphatically expects each & every director to take almost as active a part in the company's affairs as its president does...
Newshawks were not long tracing down the author of the fantastic pamphlet. Indeed, the only nonfictional name in it was hers, as defense counsel. She was Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, crusading Chicago attorney. Last year gaunt white-haired Mrs. Spencer made news by having Dancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. Mrs. Spencer has brought up two young daughters on a strictly self-expressionistic plan. Once, when they threw their Christmas tree out a window, their mother recalls that "it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head." (TIME, Sept...
Although she had apparently made full use of all available official documents in the Lindbergh case in preparing her pamphlet, which was written in 1932, long before Hauptmann was arrested, Mrs. Spencer laughingly told reporters: "The whole thing was a satire, written and dictated by me for my own amusement merely to poke fun at the asininity of our police and court system as a whole. . . . As to the charge of the prosecutor that it was mailed to every one on the jury panel, all I can say is that I never heard of the panel. I didn...
...good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with the jurors in Hunterdon County. Last week he charged an attempt by somebody to tamper with potential jurors by circulating a pamphlet to the effect that "Aviator's Baby Was Never Kidnapped or Murdered...
...convenience of the Class of 1938 the Crimson is starting today to reprint the Confidential Guides on courses beginning in the second half year which appeared in the Freshman pamphlet in September...