Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions...
...Soviet satire by V. Kirchon and A. Ouspensky, its hero is a great-nosed fellow called Terekhine who uses his prestige as a revolutionary soldier to bully his comrades and preempt their women. When Nina, whose "bourgeois" yearnings for wifehood and maternity have not been stifled by propaganda, tells Terekhine she is pregnant, he curses. When he has persuaded her to have an abortion and she still pesters him, he murders...
Wealthy collectors of art are usually old men who, upon retiring from business, find little to do. In Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch Phillips, Pittsburgh manufacturer (glass). For eleven years young Phillips has been owner of a one-man museum of modern...
...resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
Caucasian Love (Amkino). There is further angry propaganda in this one, directed now at the Cossacks whom the Tsar sent to drive the people of Tersk out of their village. The situation is presented less consciously and vehemently than in The New Babylon (see above). Good shots: the illiterate Chechens signing a document by pressing it with thumbs first rubbed on a sooty pot; a crowd of people on a mountain road; villagers squatting with bowed heads in the road as they await a charge by cavalry...