Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amerikai-Magyar Népszava, a Hungarian daily, was getting a lot of attention in international short-wave circles last week. A new editorial team had just taken over. And while a well-wishing message from President Truman was beamed to Central Europe by the Voice of America, the Moscow radio lambasted the new management as a bunch of rascals...
Twisted Facts. It was neither true nor new, and it had already been investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
...that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America. But O'Donnell though he is a militant socialist and practicing Roman Catholic, had also helped found a bogful of Communist peasant groups...
...turned down. "The letter made it clear . . . that the U.S. for the moment is in short pants and that until it gets back to adult ways there is nothing to do but be gently intolerant of its behavior. It is not easy to have any other attitude toward America in a tantrum, there is so much of ourselves in its people...
...Olympic hopefuls, the big push was just beginning. Final tryouts in 134 events -from bicycling to canoeing-will be run off before the S.S. America sails next month for London with its cargo of 375 U.S. athletes...