Word: pamphlets
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Smear of the week was a pamphlet issued by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...mimeographed sheets, headed "Speakers Bureau," were presumably intended to be used as a thesis for speeches to colored voters. Of even more interest was a companion piece, which also emanated from Colored Division headquarters, an eleven-page printed pamphlet bearing the title "Let's Follow Thru," with halftone cuts of Roosevelt and Willkie, the record of the New Deal, and an anti-Willkie blast which drew heavily on the "smear" statements in the mimeographed pages. The pamphlet, a slick job with a neat layout, had obviously been prepared by a master chef. One day last week the whole mess...
...year-old murderer of Stanford White, who recently bought an old house in downtown Philadelphia, decided to warm it with a party, advertised in newspapers for guests, limited their visit "to ten minutes for men over 18-ladies over 16." He drew about 1,000 people, who received a pamphlet written by Thaw on the Belgian food crisis, listened to a five-piece orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, gulped free soda pop, watched Thaw eat dinner in the kitchen, were ushered out soon after 9 p.m. by city detectives...
Beecher. A great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher is John Beecher, who last spring found himself so burned up about current doings that he had to let off his steam in a free-verse pamphlet. Privately printed, not copyrighted, and with no rights reserved, it is written in the great American tradition of plain speech, is fittingly* titled "And I Will Be Heard...
Listing the various Fascist propaganda activities in this country, Professor Salvemini's pamphlet asserts that 11 Duce's agents have gotten control of most all of the Italian social organizations in this country and that Signer Luigi Villari of the Italian embassy in Washington directs a propaganda work consisting of priests, teachers, newspapers, and radio programs...