Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprisal for a Princeton raid on the Yale Bowl, 25 Yalemen seized Princeton's radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern lawn, and chopped down the Palmer Stadium goal posts. The Yale dean called it "vendetta spirit which surpasses the realm of good...
...into politics at 26, was elected Illinois Representative-at-Large in 1940 chiefly on the reputation of his father, ex-Illinois Secretary of State William J. Stratton. In Washington he distinguished himself as a rabid isolationist, and by letting his frank be used for the mailing of pro-German propaganda. He came back this year partly on the Republican tide, partly because Illinois Governor Dwight Green did not want him in a state...
...Allied Control Council's "top secret" drawer in Berlin is the unpublished and (the Council hopes) only authentic version of Goring's last message. To suggestions that the original be released to scotch the phonies, the Council has stubbornly replied: "We shall not spread German propaganda - this would be like oil on a fire...
...Turning Point (Lenfilm-Arikino) is a Russian-made semi-documentary billed as the "inside story" of the siege of Stalingrad. The film is superb Soviet propaganda, an interesting historical footnote to one of World War II's decisive battles-and surprisingly exciting entertainment...
...once again, Koestler succeeds in producing a brilliant on-the-spot political report and an effective piece of propaganda for a cause. At the same time, perhaps inevitably, "Thieves in the Night" fails to satisfy completely as a novel, for its characters are political types rather than integrated personalities...