Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Storm Troopers are taken up in a like manner. All of this evidence is used to create a single impression: that the Nazis are consistent only in that they never tell the truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book's merit lies entirely in the originality of the idea on which it is based...
...Congressman, Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California history. Democratic registration outnumbered the Republican total for the first...
...oldtime German-American propagandist. Mr. Viereck ran a paper called The Fatherland during the War to counteract Allied- propaganda in the U. S. Of late he has been writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ...
...pile the onus for a prospective war still higher on Japan Karl Radek, No. 1 Soviet journalist and propagandist, wrote for Izvestia: "Having seized Manchuria and improved railroad transportation systems there and constructed many new air-dromes, the Japanese military now openly propagates the necessity of war with the Soviet Union. The U. S. S. R. does not observe these military preparations with folded hands but openly prepares to defend Soviet territory...
...opinion from Attorney General Cummings on the Treasury's right to take over the Federal Reserve System's gold holdings. It was known that Mr. Cum mings, Secretary Morgenthau (with his outgoing adviser, Earle Bailie), Governor Eugene Black of the Federal Reserve, Rene Leon, big silver propagandist, all had been in session at the White House. At his regular meeting with correspondents the President dropped two hints of his intentions: 1) that he was sure of his legal right to capture the Federal Reserve's gold, 2) that rumors of his intending to establish a new Government...