Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a solemn statement, published last week in the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 48,601) over the signatures of Chairman William Zebulon Foster and Secretary Earl Browder of the Communist Party: "As of today's issue ... the Daily Worker . . . ceases to be the official central organ of the Communist Party. We believe . . . that the Daily Worker merits and should receive the ... continued . . . support of all American progressives . . . including of course the Communist Party...
Next day, speaking in confidential tones to 60 visiting American educators sitting in a Cultural Relations Seminar, Foreign Editor Cesar Ortiz of the CTM organ El Popular made a fabulous charge. Conservative Candidate Almazan, he told them, is just a tool of exiled Leon Trotsky. Together, he confided to the educators, the two aimed "to wreck Mexico's liberal education system. . . . Trotsky would like to go into the U. S. to destroy your institutions, also . . . exert his influence over all South America. You can count on that...
...veteran Chicago politician. Boss Ed had his own ideas about "spontaneous" demonstrations. Leaving nothing to chance, he ordered "the works." Plan was to bring in hundreds of placard-staves, to distribute hundreds of noisemakers (whistles, bells) to the galleries; one sitting band, one marching band and the pipe organ would contribute to the spontaneous ovation. To clinch matters, the loudest man in Chicago politics, Superintendent of Sewers Tom Garry (see p. 14), was stationed at the public-address system to give out with lots of voice...
Authors Lavine & Wechsler feel that the only way for Americans to avoid the charms of British dinner music in World War II is to scrutinize every organ of authority and opinion, including the President of the U.S., for propaganda pollution. Most of their book consists of this scrutiny. Anything favorable said about any other nation, particularly the British, is, of course, propaganda...
...Philadelphia's WFIL concurrently announced that it was returning to the air Peaceful Valley, an organ and smooth-talk show, for the benefit of listeners "distressed by war, pugilistic encounters and late night swing bands...