Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought independence for the colony. In 1947, after Jagan won a seat in the legislature, the Jagans sparked a bitter sugar strike in which five workers were killed. Founding the Progressive Party, Janet became secretary general and went from village to village making speeches and organizing study and propaganda cells. In 1951, her husband traveled to East Berlin. This year, after their April electoral sweep, Janet left her four-year-old son Joe with her husband and went first to Denmark to address the Copenhagen congress of the Communist-run Women's International Democratic Federation, then on to Rumania...
After Janet got back, Governor Savage quickly realized that he could never work successfully with the Reds. As soon as he let them repeal a ban on importing subversive literature, they brought in stocks of Communist propaganda. Then the new ministers fomented another big sugar strike that shut down the colony's main industry. When that petered out, they brought in a bill to force recognition of their Red-led union, and denounced "that man Savage" in open-air rallies. And when Janet Jagan drafted a party declaration demanding that London abolish the governor's control powers...
...loyalty hearing, Radulovich produced witnesses who swore that his father was not addicted to reading Communist propaganda. And, while not denying his sister's lapses of political good sense, he pointed out that his contact with her was slight, and certainly not of the frequent and close variety prohibited by the Air Force with people of suspect loyalty...
...weeks. When he got out, he was hired by Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. He was soon running "Chato's" news service, did so well that at 28 he was named editor of O Jornal, Chateaubriand's biggest and best morning paper. Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas. "You put me in a difficult position [with the government]," Chateaubriand told Lacerda one day. Snapped back Lacerda: "I put you in an easy one. I resign." Lacerda became a columnist on Rio's Correio da Hanha, and, says...
Died. George Creel, 76, America's World War I propaganda chief and jack-of-all-public-affairs; of cancer; in San Francisco. As head of World War I's Committee on Public Information, Wilsonian Democrat Creel set out to arouse the home front ("Give me two weeks . . . and I'll change the so-called mind of the American public on any given subject"). After the Armistice, Author Creel freelanced in California, ran unsuccessfully against Fellow Muckraker Upton Sinclair in 1934 gubernatorial primary, later broke with the New Deal-Fair Deal, last fall headed northern California...