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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice for democracy before, as a member of the U. S. Committee on Public Information (propaganda) in World War I. Since then he has ably publicized electricity, soap, refrigerators, sea food, written a book on propaganda, become a leading publicist. Three months ago, having concluded that democracy was in grave danger of going under by default, he decided to start a publicity campaign in its behalf. First broadside in his campaign was an article in Current History outlining a program for patriots. Last fortnight Mr. Bernays expanded the article into a book, Speak Up For Democracy (Viking...
...simplicity was no mere affectation of wartime. It was symptomatic of the most crucial week Britain has experienced yet, with the Luftwaffe smashing harder than ever at the islands, with the Empire fully and desperately engaged from Nova Scotia to the Nile. Indeed, Britain's plight was so grave that while in the U. S. dozens of agents and agencies worked for more & more aid to Britain, in London censors forbade correspondents to report just how terribly necessary that...
...three-mile limit, but insisted on Mexico's self-established claims to sovereignty as far out as nine miles. Three Mexican gunboats were on duty near by at the time. U. S. interference with a Mexican ship, in Mexican waters, in the presence of Mexican warships was a grave matter. The time had come for a showdown on how far sensitive Latin Americans would sacrifice their pride for the sake of security measures they had helped establish...
...filling and breath-taking qualities, the Ballet Russe has its shortcomings-shortcomings the more grave because much U.S. money has gone into the ballet, notably from such backers as Edsel Ford and Yeast Scion Julius Fleischmann. Whereas Diaghilev was imaginative, ahead of his time, and not above shocking his audiences. Mr. Hurok's two troupes make little effort at even keeping up to date. Massine's ballet, St. Francis, whose music by Paul Hindemith is among the best in the modern theatre, has slipped from the repertory; Sol Hurok does not like it. Among the new ballets...
...standards of the country have been disastrously lowered, an item which may prove to be of great importance in the event of a long war. The rate of occurrence of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and infantile paralysis have more than tripled since 1933, Miss Mann pointed out; this constitutes a grave menace to the German war economy...