Word: americanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler has really sacrificed himself to a great cause. He has made lots of people feel good. Think of the poor average American leading his mechanical, time-clock existence with his fat wife and his four-room duplex. Before Hitler the only things he had to look forward to were getting drunk on Saturday night and Roosevelt's fireside chats. Even movies held no charm for him. Imagine seeing a picture with Paulette Goddard in it, while sitting next to a hefty wife! Now he can guess philosophically about how long it will be before...
...will hear from Stuart Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynd, authors of wide reputation. In his "Tyranny of Words" Chase makes a thorough analysis of semantics and the meaning of economic jargon, while in their Middle town series the Lynds present a cultural cross-section of a typical American town...
Luminaries discussing Propaganda and American Democracy are headed by David I. Walsh, Senator from Massachusetts since...
...other, the New York Times. The slogan of the former: "People's Champion of Liberty, Progress, Peace, and Prosperity" and of the latter: "All the News That's Fit to Print". Quoth the Worker on December 1 and 2, "The newspapers of this country are giving the American people a heavy dose of war propaganda," and "Twenty-five thousand newspapers lied to their readers yesterday . . . . . the respectable New York Times showed them how to do it." But the accused hat! answered a month before in an editorial on September 6, saying, "We in this country must expect shortly...
...observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign of vile, hypocritical lies about the Soviet Union . . . the one great power where the people govern . . . the one great power that can have no imperialistic aims...