Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month-old National Council for a Responsible Firearms Policy launched a campaign to send 10 million pro-control letters to Congress, also got 400 pickets to march around the N.R.A.'s gleaming, $3,500,000 Washington headquarters, where an armed guard is posted at the door. Thousands of brown paper bags, lettered with the words "Ban all guns" were sent to Senators. They also bore the message: "Pop one of these in the Senate. The surprise might get to the Senators...
...echoed by much of the rest of the press: many columnists and editorial writers quickly decided that the U.S. was consumed with violence, with sickness. Then, last week, after the first wave of dismay had passed, the press began to have some sober second thoughts. McGinniss' own paper, in fact, took him to task in an editorial for "responding immaturely and emotionally to the overwhelming horror of the moment. We vigorously condemn his blasphemy of America...
Instead, the paper ran a more effective sort of ad. Housewives Market announced a week-long special sale of many staple goods, plus free balloons for the kiddies and free orchids for the ladies. Despite the entreaties of the pickets, both Negroes and whites streamed into the market last week and business was almost back to normal. Militants muttered that Oakland was in for more trouble. But for the time being at least, William Knowland had won his battle...
Backing Off. Then some Tribune staffers began to rebel. Deskman Rex Adkins, a twelve-year man, quit the paper in protest, saying: "I can't work for Knowland any longer." Rush Greenlee, a Negro reporter who had been hired a year ago and who had turned out incisive articles on the ghetto, also resigned with a blast at Knowland. Other staffers laid plans to run a separate ad disavowing the publisher's position. At that point, Knowland backed off a bit and said that no more counterboycott ads would...
...tells a Lions Club meeting that the ghetto riots there were "training exercises" for a Communist takeover of the U.S., and that prudent citizens should 1) arm themselves, and 2) lay in a one-month supply of beans, canned foods, brewers' yeast, pet food, evaporated milk, whisky, toilet paper, soap and "haircutting tools" for use during the coming disorders. After the meeting, a club member tells Wakefield: "Hell, on my block we're already armed...