Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...
...activities of the U. S. public utilities-the "Power Trust"-private interests opposing the Government's entry to the electricity industry. So widespread, so penetrating, so energetic, so determined, so covert has been the propaganda of these interests that, as it is exposed bit by bit by the Federal Trade Commission's current investigation, the issue between California and Arizona has been twisted from its cultural base...
...have no knowledge of any condition in the Navy that is unsatisfactory. There have been efforts through propaganda to influence our sailors and marines, both in this country and China, but without effect. We have no indications of any yielding to circulars distributed, particularly at Philadelphia, Shanghai and ports from which our forces embarked for China, Circulars distributed through the mails have been turned over to the postal authorities...
Eager to establish the rights of atheists in the U. S., Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, chose to send godless propaganda to the Rev. Dr. John
Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...