Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psychological Strategy Board, whose job is directing a unified line for U.S. propaganda abroad, was launched in July 1951. Since then, it has had so many changes of command that it has never got up a full head of steam. Its first director, Gordon Gray, resigned after six months; he was succeeded by Raymond B. Allen, who took the job on a temporary basis, is quitting after 8½ months. Last week, the board got its third skipper-Admiral Alan G. Kirk, U.S.N...
Vlahos' men got pretty tired of Russian propaganda, too. Says De Marco: "Russia .was the greatest country, it had the greatest army, its soldiers were the toughest . . . They sure got mad, though, when the Russians lost the Olympics. One of them fellows told me if he was at the Olympics he woulda beat them Russian athletes with a whip. Can you beat that...
Catholics are so unused to having anyone, not of our faith, write in exposing the real cause of trouble behind the incidents in Latin countries-namely, the incessant anti-Catholic propaganda of Protestant missionaries-that I am sure many Catholics were very touched by the gesture of this minister . . . While deploring the extreme actions of a few Colombians, I can't help feeling that their provocation must have been great...
...from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front. Not this time was the tinder...
...Office of Strategic Services was producing propaganda material to be beamed across the battlefronts into Nazi Germany in 1942, but suspected its Hooper rating was low. In casting about for some way to lure more listeners to their radios, OSS remembered Marlene Dietrich. Her voice was far from the greatest in the world, but it had a haunting huskiness that Germans could well remember from such early Dietrich movies as The Blue Angel and from dozens of records (Jonny, Mein Blondes Baby, etc.). Actress Dietrich agreed. OSS picked familiar pop tunes and gave them brand-new German lyrics; Dietrich...