Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improve the standing and increase the participation of businessmen in politics, General Electric recently sent 400,000 management men and stockholders a pamphlet entitled "Political Helplessness of Business Hurts Everybody." G.E.'s main argument: "The big reason that union officials are thought to be so important politically while businessmen are usually so impotent is that rightly or wrongly the politicians figure union officials can and do influence votes, while businessmen can't and don't. The businessman who says he's not involved in politics is kidding himself−dangerously." Adds William Harrison Fetridge, vice president...
...brandishing a revolver, said: "E.O.K.A. Hold up your hands. We are not going to kill you." Cremer replied: "Well, it doesn't much matter if you do, at my age." They bound him hand and foot and drove off with him. Shortly thereafter, E.O.K.A. circulated a pamphlet that warned: if the three condemned Cypriots hang, Cremer will...
...television industry and the respected denominations in your community have this in common-they both have an enemy. This enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters do untold damage to the church cause. Some of them make thousands, yes, even hundreds of thousands of dollars' profit with no way of knowing where the money goes...
...Stubborn Rich. What Labor proposed to do about unequal cultural enrichment, Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs...
...Socialist press was in no doubt where it stood in the matter. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The uncommitted voter will quickly see that what the pamphlet means by equality is a process of leveling down, of keeping everyone as far as possible to the lowest common denominator, in all those things in which people naturally desire to be unequal-housing, education or property...