Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rashness, Mr. Hicks is receiving his due, but this leaves the horrible fact of the American unresolved. And now the paper has induced a professor emeritus of Harvard to declare that Mr. Hicks was "a voluble propagandist for an alien social philosophy." The least Professor Hart could have done was to keep his sentiments out of the American; instead, he had to drag the spectre of a house divided into a situation evolved from a newspaper's antagonism to one man. That an inactive member of the Faculty should have been added to the mess is more than unfortunate...
...explanation of young Bertram's new-found vigor is that buried beneath a typically complicated plot is a subtle lampoon at Sir Oswald Mosely, and indirectly at Fascism as a whole. Mr. Wodehouse, is too good an author, and possibly too clever a propagandist, ever to let his satire become oppressive, but he has given Bertie repeated opportunities to "tick off" Spode, totalitarian leader, in the strongest terms the lackadaisical hero has ever used...
Germany has 40,000 person hired all year around to act as spies, provocaters and propagandist. If Hitler-Ala forbid-would pas away the world still don't need to get discoured because there is 45,000,000 Hitlers in Germany. Or in other words 45 million teuton who feel just like Hitler...
Against the propagandist's subtle playing on the emotions, the writer recommends twin defenses, "experience of human nature" and an "independent humility." Both are acquired through a thorough study of history, he contends...
...considering the pros and cons of the historic debates of previous generations, a student can exercise his own judgment on matters of political importance relatively unhampered by the propagandist" President Conant avers...