Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
...during the occupation Munk's voice has attacked the Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn...
...brass hat can see is right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice yet gathered for men in this...
...Church, says the pamphlet, does "not receive rents from houses in Paddington" although it owns the land which "was many years ago let on leases to tenants who have in many cases sublet." Unfortunately, the Church has "no control whatever over the landlords, though [it has] made repeated efforts to obtain legal powers [but] Parliament is not willing to revolutionize the whole law of property to meet one particular hardship...
Reason: he suspected WPB had refused him extra paper to enable him to carry on his California pamphlet-publishing business because the Government does not like his views. Sinclair said he would appeal to the President, might even file a suit against...