Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gettysburg & Gainsborough. Though Hiram Parke now does little auctioneering himself, he still has a quick eye for the furtive lapel-clutching, pamphlet-waving, nose-pulling signals that can mean a bid. And he has not lost the ability to keep bidding at the fever pitch that he first showed more than 50 years ago in his first auction, when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published...
What About You? One day Gladys Aylward, deeply troubled, picked up a mission pamphlet which said: "There are millions in China that have never heard the name of Jesus Christ. WHAT ABOUT You?" She knew, then, what she must...
...undeniably true, as the pamphlet Race in the News reveals, that numerous Southern editors still cater to anti-Negro prejudice, thus flagrantly ignoring their responsibilities both for better newspapers and better race relations . . . [However], in addition to such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times, I certainly wish to include the Nashville Banner . . . And surely the Greensboro daily News, the Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald, all published in North Carolina, deserve honorable recognition, as does the Columbia (S.C.) Record...
...nuns were instructed to explain the pamphlet to their pupils. Other copies were distributed through the Catholic War Veterans, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name and Rosary societies. Parish priests were briefed. In all, the church expected to distribute close to 250,000 copies. But most Jersey political observers thought that, even with the church's help, Wene would have to make more gains before he could cry "bingo" and walk off with the governorship as his prize...
...newspaper offices throughout the South last week, editors and publishers were reading a new, blunt-spoken pamphlet on one of their major ethical problems. Its title: Race in the News. Its thesis: many Southern editors still pander to anti-Negro prejudice, thereby ignore their responsibility for better newspapers and better race relations...