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...father, the Reverend Walter E. Smith, published a pamphlet on proportional representation. Dodgson wrote him about this, sending a copy of Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes Where More Than Two Issues Are To Be Voted On. My father replied, pointing out that by Dodgson's method, in certain circumstances, nobody would be elected...
Bishop De Wolfe's doctrinal dander rose when the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the Protestant Council of New York City distributed 300,000 copies of a pamphlet containing the Rockefeller speech. In a pastoral letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur...
...streamlined taradiddles. Seized one day with a desire to debunk the false prophets, Mullikin & Hand planned a reductio ad absurdum, their own radar-electronic "kitchen of tomorrow," and showed a sketch of it to their boss. Schaible was so tickled that it rounded out the idea in a burlesque pamphlet, sent it out as direct-mail advertising. By last week, requests for the pamphlet were running ahead of the printers...
...such gatherings produce the miraculous results attained by Manhattan's Tamblyn & Brown in 1926. At the opening dinner of a campaign to raise $100,000 for the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission in New York, a wealthy coal dealer picked up his pamphlet entitled: The Man Nobody Knows. Profoundly moved by it, he leaned over and whispered to the chairman, who blanched, then bounced to his feet to quaver that the quota was achieved and the drive over...
...They have had to be patient, elusive and resourceful, with the corporate manners of an undertaker and the understanding of a Freud. Once, when Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams College, they happened to print a part of the College song, The Mountains, in a pamphlet. Checks fluttered in. When Horace Dutton Taft tried to raise $2,000,000 for the Taft school the drive failed. A fund-raiser's solution: Mr. Taft deeded the property over to his trustees and the goal was reached...