Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he refused to attend propaganda movies, Fujii was brought before a "People's Court." As punishment, he was thrown into the middle of a ring of prisoners, then kicked and beaten from one side to the other...
Archbishop Beran, the calm center of the storm, remained a semi-prisoner in his Prague palace. All the resources of the Communist propaganda machine were employed in attacking him. The trade-union newspaper Prace accused him of working for "Wall Street-dominated Vatican City." "Leading such a gang," the paper said, "the Archbishop is heading into his own destruction...
...publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail), Harry Guy Bartholomew (Daily Mirror) and 17 other witnesses, studied financial reports, and thumbed through...
...Issued propaganda directives calling for a general peace conference...
...daily column, Cope mixes his propaganda for the agrarian revolution with homely philosophy, simple humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...