Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident of success. Louisiana's Passman, wearing an ice-cream white suit and eating an Eskimo Pie, lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation...
...from Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station amid a blare of brass bands, the Rev. Mr. McKenna read a statement signed by 32 members of the group. "We believe in the right of citizens to travel." he said. "We reject the notion that we are a tool of Communist propaganda." Not 24 hours later one of the group, Brooklyn's Larry Moyer, was pumping out glowing dispatches for the United Press about Communism's "oceans of golden wheat . . . big factories and golden domes of Byzantine churches . . . new industrial giants seldom visited by foreigners...
...moment for Zorin to reply to John Foster Dulles' proposals for aerial zones of inspection (TIME, Aug. 12). But. after complaining that the Dulles proposal failed to include all U.S. bases in Asia and Africa, Zorin returned to two of the most tired themes of Soviet propaganda: if there is to be disarmament, all NATO and Communist Warsaw Pact troops must be withdrawn from foreign soil in Europe, and all foreign military bases must be liquidated. He reiterated the Soviet insistence on a quick three-stage reduction of armed forces...
...must not think, however, that this play is a piece of propaganda. It is not a pitting of black against white in which white finally triumphs. It is a complex study of grays. Almost every character undergoes a change of religious attitude during the play, but at the end we still see a pattern of grays. And this is as it should...
...drop in the bottomless Indian bucket, while perhaps 20% of the borrowers are likely to fail in their businesses. But as Graham moved on to the Middle East at week's end to continue his interrupted family vacation, his open-handed demonstration had been worth a hundred propaganda pronouncements on U.S. capitalism. "You don't have to be a millionaire to put up $5,000," said Graham, hoping to encourage other Americans into backing small Asian entrepreneurs. Said Indian Hotelman Mohan Oberoi: "Send us 5,000 more Bill Grahams...