Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans waiting at home got no cheer. Their radios and newspapers told them to be "under no delusion about the seriousness of the fighting." A German radio propagandist moaned about the Red Army's "enormous mass of tanks" and admitted that the German army's situation at Stalingrad was "temporarily of a serious nature." German newspapers prepared their readers for "a war of many years" in Russia. Whoever was winning the battles last week, the Germans, by their own admission, were not winning...
...finogenov's play does not concern itself much with plot. Instead, it concentrates on a series of character sketches, with a visible Chekhov influence, and winds up as a decidedly unproletarian drama--with plenty of bourgeois emotions and sentimentality to contend with. Afinogenov isn't much as a Soviet propagandist; he does much better as a playwright...
Publisher Allen had worked hard for his decorations. More of a Western Hemisphere propagandist than a newspaperman, he has been friends with Mexican Presidents-left, right or center-from Calles to Avila Camacho. Now 46, he has been scurrying back and forth across the Rio Grande for 26 years. He understands Mexicans and they understand...
...Revenue Bureau is not alone in its interest. Fish's $25,000 was first discovered by a Washington grand jury-the same jury which returned a perjury indictment against Fish's secretary, George Hill, after Hill lied about helping Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck (TIME, Jan. 26). The jury plans to talk to Ham Fish again...
...villain of the Cummins' news shorts is conservatism. But, like a good propagandist, Cummins sometimes varies his fare with shorts like the one on the homecoming of Hitler-loving Unity Freeman-Mitford (TiME, Jan. 15, 1940). The short was narrated in smooth doggerel,† accompanying shots of British troops keeping the press at bay with fixed bayonets...