Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest and one of the least criticized publicity staffs in Washington is Agriculture's (72 men). Second biggest and most often on the pan is WPA's (28 in Washington, 30 more throughout the U. S.). Since almost anything WPA might say about its putting the jobless to work cannot help being propaganda of a sort, it tries these days not to say too much.* No WPA movie, radio transcription or "special report" is sent to anyone who does not submit a written, signed request...
...record time last week one of the most important treaties ever to be signed by one of the 21 American States was torpedoed by one of the smaller men in one of the smaller major American States. Hardly was the ink dry on the Pan-American Conference's unanimous resolution to eschew barter-trade deals with the European dictator nations, when small but rich Uruguay O. K.d a deal with Italy which, swapping wool for armaments, is expected to treble trade between the countries...
From Arica, Chile, this week came a newspaperman's snapshot of the recent 8th Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, which did not coincide with the Conference's official picture...
...York Times Correspondent John W. White wrote: "The .. . Conference . . . functioned under a dictatorial regime of censorship, intimidation and spying such as never before seen in any Pan-American assembly. The Peruvian Government not only tried to control the newspaper correspondents, it censored and spied on the delegates. . . . Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting...
...Peruvian] Government's sympathies are intensely fascist," continued Mr. White, "and the Government was furious at the disclosure of German and Italian activities against the Pan-American Conference. On the opening day . . . Lima appeared to be the site of a great Nazi rally. There were literally thousands of swastika flags all over the city. There were only three American flags on the main street, and one of them was at the American Consulate. Also there were more Italian and Japanese flags than there were flags of any South American countries. Throughout the Conference the Government-controlled newspapers used prominent...