Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is Cyril doing? He is not exactly doing-he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...
...Such propaganda would be viewed by many as pernicious. Others, hailing it as informative, would uphold it. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission conducted a public utility investigation following the acerbities which greeted the political largess of Public Utility Potentate Samuel Insull. That these utilities had spread propaganda throughout the schools of the land was made patent...
...November, the potent National Education Association appointed a nationally representative committee of ten (teachers, headmasters, deans) to investigate public utility propaganda in schools. Dr. Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools, was made chairman. Last fortnight, Dr. Broome spoke. Oracular, he seemed to mean more than he said when he said: "It is the unanimous conviction of the committee that the function of the school is to teach children how to think, not what to think. It is not right to indoctrinate the minds of young people with either one side or the other of controversial questions...
Shrewd readers of Dr. Broome's words realized that it was not right of the Hearst press to perceive in his tempered statements a sweeping denunciation of Power Trust (public utilities) propaganda. So far Dr. Broome has merely decried propaganda in the school, has refrained from stating whether there was any. In Atlanta, in June, when the National Education Association (known to all educators as N. E. A.), holds its annual conference Dr. Broome will speak more exactly...
...Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...