Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading Huber's list of "most active Communist front organizations" were the International Workers Order and the American Slav Congress...
Enormous sums have been appropriated for the task, and anyone working with private information outfits can only be appalled at the extravagance of the operation. The State Department supports Information Centers throughout Germany and Austria, most of which have large libraries of books on American subjects. Periodically they send out truck loads of American books for distribution to smaller towns. Picture displays on the U.S., American teachers, artists, musicians, and lecturers tour the Centers. Last summer the Walden String Quartet, the Yale Glee Club, and Town Meeting of the Air were some of the performers...
...been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting the one undamaged art museum in Munich into an officers club, have not convinced Germans of American intellectual interests. In short, the undertaking has lacked sophistication, and in a society which gives enormous respect to intellectuals their scorn carries great weight. Gradually, the ISD has come to realize that there is little value in planning propaganda for Germans and Austrians in terms of an American public...
Chen, an astronomy major, was one of ten American students named for the award, which carries with it a grant of $600. A graduate of the Horace Mann School in New York City, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa...
Members of the Liberal Union, the American Veterans' Committee, the Teachers' Union, the Young Progressives, and the National Lawyers' Guild had agreed Saturday to ask their groups to oppose in two general ways the application of the loyalty oath to College students...