Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special House Committee to investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations began hearings "to determine which such foundations and organizations are using their resources for un-American and subversive activities; for political purposes, propaganda, or attempts to influence legislation...
Dodd attacked the Ford Foundation for its "dubious staff and its support of Communism and socialist propaganda." One witness, sympathetically questioned by the chairman, attacked the Kinsey Report, financed by a foundation grant, as a force for weakening American morals, and another criticized Gunnar Myrdal's book "An American Dilemma" because it saw too much that is shoddy in our society...
...after seven months, "I was taken one morning before an official who, never looking me in the face, informed me that I had been tried without my knowledge and had been condemned to ten years of forced labor 'For espionage on behalf of the Vatican and anti-Communist propaganda...
Twist in Moscow. One day, a fellow prisoner from Mongolia approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy...
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME...