Word: ballyhooing
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...terror symbols" systematically used by the Axis radio: words like "annihilated," "total," "paralyzing," etc. How "the use of absurd exaggerations and fantastic assertions is an essential part of the German strategy. It removes to a large extent the stigma attached to propaganda by giving to it an appearance of ballyhoo"-i.e., something which the U.S. radio audience has long been conditioned to accept good-humoredly...
...biggest program of Government ballyhoo since Liberty Bond days rolled out of Washington this week on wheels. Three six-car trains painted red, white and blue and ten truck caravans left for a 40-day series of one and two-night stands to carry the message of subcontracting to thousands of little businessmen throughout the U.S. It was Floyd Odium's circus...
...occasion-dubbed Liberty Fleet Day-was reminiscent of World War I in more ways than one. The nation the launchings were aimed at was the same: Germany. The reason for the ballyhoo was the same: to get the U.S. public behind a program designed to build more ships than German U-boats can sink. Said Franklin Roosevelt in a recorded speech broadcast at each yard: "We propose, to the best of our ability, to protect them from torpedo, from shell or from bomb...
...Morgenthau this is wonderful. Three months ago, he piously announced that high-pressure ballyhoo would play no part in his campaign; but he had to change his mind. For the first time, and only in Michigan, the right people are buying his defense bonds. Main objective of defense bonds was to sell huge amounts of Series E bonds and defense stamps (face value: 10? to $1,000) to individuals, thus siphon off excess buying power and postpone inflation. Through June 30 (latest available figures), national bond sales were $713,668,000, a satisfactory total. But of this total, banks & trust...
...Soviet Union in its struggle against Hitlerism! By week's end the Worker chucked away its olive branch, shut off its no-war dirge and strode out-helmeted, booted and spurred. Gone, all gone, were the whoops against New Deal-tycoon collusion, the sneers at "Mamma" Roosevelt, the ballyhoo for the forthcoming American Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army prowess written in old-fashioned dime-novel style...