Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian Endeaver uplifter, warns us; there is good, as the family history abundantly illustrates. Indeed, this domestic novel might almost be conceived, by a perverse fancy, as a preachment for the domestic virtues, banished from speech and thought since the good Queen's death. Mr. Hoffman, however, is no propagandist. He is merely chronicling events which have been registered on his very keen and subtle sensibility...
...president of the University of Akron (TIME, July 3). Satisfied with his educational record (after working his way through the University of Kansas by driving a hearse he had taught modern European history at Kansas, Cornell and Penn State), they were impressed by his having been a Wartime propagandist under George Creel, a division chief in the Office of Education be fore he went to Akron. Methodist and Rotarian, Dr. Zook kept more free of local politics than most municipal university presidents. Because he never told how he voted, he was called "Poker Face'' by his professors...
...Designer of the Blue Eagle was Charles T. Coiner, Philadelphia artist. Its originator is supposed to have been Frank Wilson, onetime Sioux City newshawk, Liberty Loan propagandist and now a chicken-raiser at Pawling...
Broadcasting from Munich that same night, Chancellor Hitler's chief anti-Dollfuss propagandist, Nazi Theodor Habicht, roared: "There can be no peace and stability in Europe until Germany and Austria are united!" In Vienna counter-propaganda was released by the Austrian Foreign Office which inspired reports that Chancellor Dollfuss can now count on "certain military action" by Great Britain, France and Italy to preserve the status quo in Austria should his cabinet be menaced by "either German or Austrian Nazis...
...Public Information headed by George Creel. Ministers were the first to demand, as suitable for churches, such material as a lantern-slide lecture on "Ruined Churches in France." Ministers were also glad to give their pulpits to "Four-Minute Men," to preach mimeographed War sermons sent out by Propagandist Creel, and sometimes, like the late Dr. Percy Stickney Grant of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension, to let Mr. Creel himself speak...