Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of non-government aid, Bender found occasional "overtones of public relations, propaganda, self-aggrandizement or corporate recruiting." Although he called increased Federal aid a "social imperative for our kind of society," he warned of attempts to "limit freedom of inquiry and expression," offering the NDEA loyalty provision as an "ominous note...
...most of his life Stefan Bandera was an angry, fanatic outcast, dedicated to a lost cause. His cause was Ukrainian independence, and so hard did Bandera struggle for it that Soviet propaganda refers to all members of the Ukrainian underground as "Banderovtsy." The son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest, Stefan joined the Ukrainian underground in high school, and knew no other occupation. In 1934, when Bandera was sentenced to death for the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronislav Pieracki (for Ukrainians regarded both Poles and Russians as usurpers), the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, presumably to prevent a Ukrainian...
...Cuban exiles who live near Miami and glower across the Straits of Florida at Fidel Castro, last week's opportunity for a propaganda blow was irresistible: 2,000 U.S. travel agents were freeloading on Castro in Havana in a convention dedicated to the fatuous proposition that present-day Cuba is a tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine...
...name of Harvard University is well known in Russia," group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference...
Representing the Cambridge "Committee on Better Teeth for Our Children," Mrs. Dean A. Clark, wife of Dean A. Clark, clinical professor of Preventive Medicine, contacted Mott and urged him to form a group to spread pro-fluoridation propaganda among Cambridge voters, according to Mott...