Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making some converts where conversion was difficult. In Paris, a French foreign office official told a TIME correspondent: "You know, the other day a pamphlet came across my desk. Written in French, it was entitled Pour la Paix. My first reaction was that it was just another Communist propaganda tract. But it wasn't. It was John Foster Dulles' recent speech in Chicago...
...picture, one of the most fanciful and macabre of all of Rivera's heavy-handed propaganda paintings, shows a servile, rat-faced Castillo Armas shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Castillo Armas bows low; at his belt is an automatic pistol, and in his jacket pocket a thick packet of $10,000 bills. Secretary Dulles, in a battered felt hat and paratrooper's uniform, grips with one hand Rivera's idea of an H-bomb. On the bomb is a leering caricature of President Eisenhower. Whispering in the secretary...
Hashim, a family man with six children, is stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 147 Ibs.), looks like a darker, balding version of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Says Hashim: "I want to play to make propaganda for my country. I am getting a little too old for the game now, but my air-force sponsors tell me I must play for three or four more years, and I never forget that they have made me what I am. I kill myself for them and to keep Pakistan the champion in squash...
Last week in Hanoi, Sainteny proudly unveiled something he called "an agreement," but which Ho Chi Minh referred to as a "joint declaration between the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (a self-styled propaganda title) and a delegation of French economic experts." French business firms could "retain present form," it was proclaimed, but only subject to Ho's "sovereignty and legislation." French products could be "freely" sold, but Ho's government orders "must be executed first." French businessmen could "freely" send profits abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement...
...running a sweatshop-Walt handled it badly and lost the decision gracelessly. The studio was closed down for two weeks. Except for the war, it would probably have closed down for good. For the next four years the U.S. paid Disney's bills while he made educational and propaganda films. On the side, Disney's artists designed insignia for the Armed Forces...