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...slogan 'like "Give Chicago a House of Prayer" is conceived and printed along with other sales talk on a beribboned, dignified pamphlet, promising heavenly & earthly rewards. (Some of the earthly ones: getting one's, name inscribed in a "golden book," on a hospital plaque, or in a stained-glass window.) At last the volunteer committees hold a "kickoff luncheon." A pamphlet is snuggled under every napkin, and the drive is launched...
...Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Planning Pamphlet No. 35 (25?), National Planning Assoc.; Employment Policy (60?), Macmillan; Sir William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (sixpence), New Statesman and Nation and Reynolds News; Full Employment Bill of 1945, 78th Congress, and Session...
...wives whom Canadian soldiers have married in Britain, the Canadian Government this week published a 40-page pamphlet telling the girls what to expect in their husbands' country. Welcome to War Brides, issued by the Wartime Information Board and the Department of National Defense, contains everything from geography lessons to shopping hints, and a glossary explaining, for example, that in Canada a joint is a roast, a spanner is a wrench, and corn is wheat. Typical advice...
...National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
Velazco mobilized the entire police force, hunted high & low. He did not find Aguirre Cámara or his printing plant. On schedule, the pamphlet appeared. Entitled Demagogia, Inflación y Armamentismo (Demagoguery, Inflation and Militarism), it passed through the mails in envelopes like those used by Government agencies. Before the police woke up to the trick, it had reached a wide audience. A single copy now brings as much as 1,000 pesos...