Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement began: "The President said: I have been much interested. . . ." What he was interested in was the disclosure in a New York court that "a naval expert'' had received more than $50,000 from "three naval shipbuilding corporations," for propaganda that he had carried on for a bigger Navy and against naval limitation...
...Soviet announcement was not premature China and Russia have agreed that: i) The arrested Soviet employes charged with propaganda shall be released. 2) The status of joint operation by China and Russia of the Chinese Eastern Railway shall be restored on the basis of the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. 3) Soviet employes on the road shall in future respect an injunction against propaganda contained in the treaty. 4) Issues still outstanding shall be settled by a special plenary conference...
...number of musicians so ousted numbers only 7,000, instead of the 35,000 estimated earlier. Diminishing receipts have impelled several theatres to re-engage their orchestras. The Federation of Musicians is fighting its battle by a propaganda campaign to persuade the public that "canned" orchestras are never as clear, never as rich as orchestras "in person," that for Music's sweet sake no mechanical device should be permitted to intervene between ear and instrument...
Total U. S. typewriter exports were $18,020,495 in 1925, have shown a steady increase to $21,010,890 last year. Great Britain took $3,250,018 worth, despite intensive propaganda that "British Machines are Best." France came second with a purchase of $1,971,617, Argentina took $1,020,702, and Canada followed close with $1,000,944. Six other countries each took between $600,000 and $900,000 worth: Italy, Germany, British India, Brazil, Spain and Czechoslovakia...
...cruelty of a eunuch arrives at a Siberian prison in the Tsar's time and begins to run things the way he wants them. The picture is not a story but a description of the way the imperial prisons are said to have been. There is propaganda in it, but that is kept out of sight. Its horror, too is kept out of sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would not be possible if there was any real howling, but the picture is silent. You never...