Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American correspondent expects any privileges from the government he must cable thousands of words of Soviet propaganda to his paper, and he must be cautious with the news he obtains from other sources...
...specifically name Harvard, Representative Hagan, in his speech before the committee a week ago, made certain references to the relations which he claimed existed between the Harvard Business School and the National Electric Light. Association, as disclosed in an investigation last year by the Federal Trade Commission into the propaganda, activities of public utilities. It is the purpose of this article to sketch the background of that investigation and to indicate some of its disclosures...
...outcome of the Walsh resolution, was the confined, in its opening phase, to the so-called public relations and educational activities of the public utilities, especially the National Electric Light Association. The investigation developed the fact that a systematic, nation-wide organization, termed by its critics a "propaganda machine", was operated by the light and power interests to influence public sentiment through the press and the schools and colleges...
...investigation disclosed that the New England Bureau of Public Service Information, maintained by gas, electric and other utilities, and located in Boston, sent out in one year propaganda to 289 schools in New England. The literature bore the slogan. "For use of school students, English, current topics, and debating classes." Since the investigation this slogan has been removed...
Speaking of the three companies, at which the proposed investigation is aimed, the National Electric Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the New England Bureau of Public Service Information, he stated: "These organizations, according to the evidence before the Federal Trade Commission, appear to have financed propaganda activities in this State, even invading the sacred portals of Harvard College, the Harvard School of Business Administration...