Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware, the OWI has distributed throughout the world lapel badges bearing the picture of President Roosevelt. ... It may be that Private Meyerson resented this propaganda at the battlefront and sought to counteract it. ... I suggest, therefore, in order to keep the Navy free of any charge of aiding New Deal propaganda within our Armed Forces that you make public the censored portion of Private Meyerson's letter, and, if necessary, inquire from him what he sought to tell his mother...
...Chicago Opera House tried to sell 50,000 books of tickets at $10 apiece to "insure Chicago the finest opera in the world." The plan was to produce eight weeks of home-grown opera, which (according to the Chicago Daily News) would "demonstrate the culture of Chicago, and . . . counteract certain dark spots in the reputation of the city." But by week's end only 216 books had been bought, and it looked as if the only opera Chicago would have would be a two-week season of guesting by Manhattan's Met. Such a guest season would...
...become naturalized citizens, 2) to enter the U.S. on a regular yearly quota basis (2% of the immigrant's nationals residing in the U.S. in 1890, which, in China's case, totals 105 a year). Passed along to a receptive Senate for approval, the repeal measure would counteract, to some extent, the waves of Jap propaganda-that the U.S. thinks of the Chinese as members of an inferior race...
Both are very close friends of Harry Hopkins, who exhibited them in Washington as New Deal-tamed capitalists, thus giving some luster to the bumbling Business Advisory Council-to counteract the steady attacks from most businessmen on the Roosevelt policies. Both are personally attractive, able administrators. Neither has a record of great creative achievement nor a reputation as a man of ideas. Ed Stettinius' record, indeed, in the early defense-production days, was so badly spotted that he was kicked upstairs to the check-signing job as Lend-Lease Administrator, (TIME, March 10, 1941, et seq.). Behind...
...implement the President's promises and to counteract Jap propaganda, a bill was introduced in Congress last week by Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings. It would give the Filipinos their independence not in 1946, but "completely and forthwith...