Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Till last week, white-haired, pink-cheeked Porter Sargent was widely and amiably known as a rich, eccentric Bostonian who publishes the Handbook of Private Schools, whose salty annual prefaces on world affairs amuse many. Last week Mr. Sargent jumped right out of his scholastic skin. Reverting to Revolutionary New England form, Mr. Sargent attempted to flay the hide off British propaganda. If the U. S. people get into World War II, nobody can say that Porter Sargent did not warn them...
...started mildly last Memorial Day. Mr. Sargent had discovered a book by a Briton, Sidney Rogerson, called Propaganda in the Next War, telling how Britain might seduce the U. S. into the coming war against Germany. When U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye read a chapter from this book (which he said Britain had tried to suppress) into the Congressional Record, Porter Sargent had 10,000 reprints made, sent them, with a one-page mimeograph of his own observations, to his mailing list of educators. They immediately called for more...
...last week, when Mr. Sargent sent out his 22nd hot bulletin, his audience had become impressive. Egging him on were H. L. Mencken, Boake Carter, John Dewey, Charles Beard, Stuart Chase, Robert Maynard Hutchins, many another bigwig. Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman wrote: "If you cut the bulletins off, I shall cut you off in my will...
...victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James Conant and Yale's Charles Seymour. For censorship and propaganda, says Mr. Sargent, Britain last year spent at least...
...spite of all, asserts Porter Sargent, Britain's campaign had failed to shake U. S. pacifism until Russia last month attacked Finland. Says he: "What an opportunity for propagandists to inflame idealistic emotions! The last straw to bring...