Word: creel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred M. Landon, William Agar (former Vice President of Freedom House), George Creel, John Dewey, Varian Fry (editor of Common Sense), Publisher Martin J. Quigley, A. Phillip Randolph (President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters), Oswald Garrison Villard, Justice Francis E. Rivers, ex-Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Elliott V. Bell (New York State Superintendent of Banks), Publisher Frederick S. Crofts, Raymond Leslie Buell (former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association...
Married. George Creel, 66, director of U.S. propaganda in World War I; and Alice May Rosseter, 46, until recently NLRB director in San Francisco; each for the second time; in Manhattan. His first wife was the late theatrical favorite, Blanche Bates; the bride's first husband was the late John Henry Rosseter, vice president of W. R. Grace...
...losing the war by propaganda": "We need no Goebbels. . . . Can the methods of a Goebbels fashion the mind of a new democracy? One consideration that suggests a ministry of propaganda to its proponents is the fact that we had a Committee on Public Information in the last war. . . . The Creel Committee, as it was known, has been studied thoroughly. But from the learned battle emerges only one conclusion: this country would have won the war, anyhow...
...great formulae of the Creel Committee, like 'making the world safe for Democracy,' became a mockery soon after the armistice. The man at the breakfast table felt that he had been duped. ... It was then that the little man began to shout, 'Back to normalcy.' The violence of the reaction was stunning; it lost us the peace...
...Parliamentary debates about BBC and by radio in general. Partly aided by a Rockefeller grant which expires this month, yellow-haired, big-domed Professor Friedrich has given five years of study to radio politics-five years in which his contempt for Naziism and Nazi "indoctrination" methods (indebted to the Creel Committee, as Goebbels used to acknowledge) has been thoroughly confirmed...