Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensible, earnest Elmer Davis, who had set the tone of these official utterances and okayed one of them personally, was bound to take this as a stern rebuke. So were the speakers themselves. Many a Washington official wondered how the President, after one quick glimpse of war plants, could be so confident of his own statistics-94 or 95% of the goals-when their own charts showed a less rosy picture. Congressmen and correspondents wondered how, after his conducted tours, he could be so sure that he knew better than anyone the temper of the people...
...Tone & Content. Brain of the foreign propaganda division is its planning and intelligence board in Washington-which includes an ex-foreign correspondent (the Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer), an economist (James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...
These directives determine the tone of U.S. propaganda, but not its content. That is primarily the concern of Operations' International Press & Radio Bureau, which writes all the propaganda that the air waves and cables carry. Bureau Chief Joe Barnes, former foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and his staff of onetime newspaper, magazine and radio writers turn out enough copy to supply 250 radio shows a day and to service newspapers all over the world...
...mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone is Mrs. Hadley's remark after reading President Roosevelt's letter about her son's valor. "Oh, to think," quavers Mrs. Hadley, licked indeed, "of his finding time to write to me, with all the things...
...into my bed and leaned her ash-blonde head on my new framboise-colored $12.50 Saks Fifth Avenue pajamas, and then in the cadences of Leslie Howard, with her eyes on my lips, in three distinct shadings, soft, softer, and the last words in an almost inaudible whispered tone, she said, 'I love you, I love you, I will always love...