Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George III it seemed as natural to impose the equivalent of a modern tariff or embargo as to breathe. It seems so still to a majority of statesmen. That Great Britain in the igth Century took another line was due to such bold spirits as Thinker Adam Smith, Propagandist Richard Cobden, Pioneer Sir Robert Peel, Statesman William Ewart Gladstone, and to Geography...
...clamor, as the Navy League's president, for speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When President Hoover and Secretary Adams last month began to hack down the Navy's budget, Propagandist Gardiner cried out in pain and protest. The proposal by Italy's Dino Grandi for an all-round suspension of naval building for one year sent him into a statistical spasm...
Fortnight ago it was learned that the plane had belonged originally to two German aviators, that the unknown aviator was one Lauro de Bosis, Italian esthete, whose mother, the former Lillian Vernon of Syracuse, N. Y., was arrested in Rome last year as an anti-Fascist propagandist. Last week, hope for Aviator de Bosis gone, a curious document appeared in Paris. Written by young de Bosis in the expectation that he would be shot down over Italy, it was entitled: THE STORY OF MY DEATH. Excerpts...
...solicitor. In 1926 Chen and Chiang, who now scorns him, were fellow revolutionaries in Canton. Both took Russian gold then, but Marshal Chiang, having conquered half of China (1927), broke with Moscow whereas Chen did not. During Chiang's war of conquest Chen was his No. 1 Chinese propagandist, won thousands of recruits and many a battle for Chiang with his "insolent, bizarre and colorful phraseology." Today Mr. Chen, who is back in Canton repeating .the revolution of 1926, insolently pictures President Chiang as a would-be Emperor of China on bizarre posters, colorfully calls the ancient walls...
...Chen is the master propagandist of China. A fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...