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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To generous radio station WOR, time donated to pure Americanism is time well-spent. But free time attacking a specific political view usually means, in radio's unofficial code, more free time defending it. Last week, just before Mrs. Rushmore Patterson rushed off to South Dakota to attend ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cause | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

This chapter accuses advertising of improper use of testimonials, of "widespread" misrepresentation of goods, of inducing people to want more things and become extravagant, of taking advantage of human psychology by playing on people's vanity and emotions. It concedes that "it is impossible to carry on our economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Propaganda Purge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

>Implying that advertising's purpose-"to make us buy"-"is the very essence of wickedness." Says Mr. Falk: "Business has to sell goods, and has to sell more goods, if all of us consumers are to have greater national income and enjoy higher standards of living."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Propaganda Purge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

In the Hobby Club of Bellingham, Wash, one day six years ago, a big, solidly built, well-dressed educator named Charles Henry Fisher suddenly remarked: "If I had money I would invest it in Soviet bonds. They are paying 7%." The manager of Bellingham's Herald, angular old Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: I'm Agin You | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

"If a museum does not care to be of immediate practical use to the people who maintain it, help them to more intelligent enjoyment of daily life by adding interest to the common interest of that life, and seeks only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Newark & Dana | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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