Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of relative merits and defects, the Model League of Nations would experience difficulty in justifying its existence. Its confinement to the intellectual east, a section of the country almost unanimous in its advocacy of American entrance into the League, will nullify whatever propagandist powers it may have, except for antagonizing opponents to the League. As a means for enlivening current events and broadening college thinking on international topics it offers less advantages and more possibilities for distorted conceptions than does the average debate...
...propagandist, Mr. T. M. Ainscough, the Senior British Trade Commissioner in India, published last week his 1931 report. During half of that year the ''Gandhi-Irwin Truce" was in effect, and Indian boycotting of British goods was undoubtedly less effective than it has become since St. Gandhi was again jailed (TIME. Jan. 11). Dryly the Senior British Trade Commissioner set down that during 1931 British exports to India declined by more than one third...
Scarism has faintly made an entrance into the undergraduate conversations about the Sino-Japanese difficulties during the past days, while developments become increasingly critical in the East. Such mildly propagandist trends of thought will make little advance into the minds of students who reason out the relation which they bear to the problem at hand...
...equal propagandist is the conversational scarist, who peddles witticisms of drafts, who describes a feeling of boredom with academic life, and who pictures the great future of adventure and real service that comes with enlistment in an army in the Orient...
...blatant Anti-Corn Law Association led by Propagandist Richard Cobden so alarmed the Tories that Tory Sir Robert Peel was put in as Prime Minister especially to guard their interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...