Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directing this week threatens, in irresponsibility and blindness to facts, to surpass all other recent attempts to uproot America's Communist menace. Depending on the testimony of political experts of the caliber of Adolphe Menjou, the Committee seeks to prove that the celluloid capital is a dispensary of Red propaganda. Meanwhile, a bevy of eminent movie producers are defending themselves like criminals against the charge of having made films, during the war, that seemed friendly to our erstwhile allies, the Russian people...
...Communist line to urban workers is relatively honest; it calls for more production. There is, however, a fundamentally revolting dishonesty about Communist propaganda in the countryside. It encourages the black market, incites farmers to demand highest possible prices for their goods, poisons peasant minds with insidious and repeated suggestions that townspeople are having a high old time at their expense...
...Price of Butter. One of their most influential weapons of propaganda is the weekly paper La Terre, an old, well-established agricultural paper which the Reds seized at the liberation. La Terre is unobtainable in Paris, but it sells, or distributes (many copies are given away) 300,000, copies every week in remote farms and tiny villages which are almost untouched by the Paris and big provincial daily newspapers...
...record makers mix propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey...
...conventions have emerged two programs for electioneering which, agreeing on these common aims, will supplement each other rather than conflict. One looks to the need for improving labor's stock in the public eye: this is the AFL's 38-cent per member assessment for a $3,000,000 propaganda agency. The other moves to intensify labor's block-by-block doorbell ringing; this is PAC's registration drive to bring out 60,000,000 voters next Fall, 12,000,000 more than...