Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...decision of peace or war will be made by the people, not by "military experts." But a powerful propaganda agency has done much to swing public opinion toward war in the past few months--the William Allen White Committee, for which President Conant spoke. For a time, the Committee's ultimate aim was not made clear. It supported "all aid to England short of war." It has finally endorsed war openly. The American people can now make up their minds about the William Allen White Committee...
...Thus spoke Dante--prestidigitator, illusionist, showman par excellence, whose so-called mystery spectacle, "Sim Sala Bim," is now causing worried frowns and bewildered head-scratching at the Shubert Theatre in Boston...
...Brazil, Axis propaganda mills work day & night. Three years ago, when he established his New State. Brazil's President Getulio Vargas found that his country had 1,200 German schools teaching exclusively in German, that 500 of his new Army conscripts spoke no Portuguese (Brazil's national language). Thereupon President Vargas decreed that every Brazilian school must employ Brazilian teachers, must teach Portuguese. Because they disobeyed his decree, he promptly closed 200 German schools, 60 Japanese. But the Japs were not so easily squelched...
Presently a door flew open: in marched Mr. Ickes. With a vague "Good morning," he plumped himself into a chair at the table's end, folded his arms, waited for questions. While other reporters sat stiff and silent, up spoke a grey-haired little newswoman: Winifred Mallon, veteran Washington correspondent who has worked for the New York Times eleven years, proudly carries in her handbag the press card which admitted her to the War Department during World War I. Said she: since the press had already made an appeal for unity, did not Mr. Ickes want to "temper...
...Next spoke Defense Attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. Howard Hopson, said Mr. Ironside, had always been a "stubborn and contentious" fighter. Unable to get used to the social idea of the Government's utility legislation and obsessed by the desire to do a good job, he fought for what he thought to be right, took all criticisms to heart. Throughout his attorney's remarks, Howard Hopson moaned and groaned...