All Annotations of Propaganda v. Propaganda -- Printout -- TIME[Preview]

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• By word for six years, by deed for two, he has warred on public
  utilities locally and nationally
• "Write your Congressmen!"
  United Gas Improvement Co., oldest public utility holding company in
  the U. S. (1882) and one of the soundest, published the number of
  institutional stockholders on its books, displayed a group of what
  appeared to be widows, orphans and pensioned bookkeepers under the
  caption: "Think it over, Uncle Sam!"
• Out to Electric Bond & Share's 143,000 stockholders went a ten-page
  letter, concluding: "Action by Congress is imminent. . . . You may
  wish to telegraph or write to your Senators and Congressmen."
• "Propaganda of the worst kind!" snapped House Minority Leader Snell.
• If it were really a question of propaganda on their part, asked the
  powermen, what about the rolling barrage laid down by the Federal Trade
  Commission in its interminable power probe? For months that body has
  been pouring forth releases which by headlines damned all powermen for
  the sins of a few like Samuel Insull.*
• "one of the most autocratic and destructive measures
  ever introduced in Congress."