Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
...sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted the mural sketch back; they got it, together with...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Grain (TIME...
Flanders suggested the possibility of dropping propaganda leaflets through the air. "A nation like ours, which resigned itself to, and practiced the mass murder of civilians by aerial bombing in the last years of the war, need not be fussily hesitant about trying something new in the interests of peace...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro (TIME...