...Information, a federal body staffed with leading progressive journalists, which sought to elicit the name of "the man who spreads pessimistic stories . . . , cries...for peace or belittles our efforts to win the war." If it was odd that writers signed on in an agency to control free speech, it was no more or less curious...

...the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines calling on readers to report to the Justice Department "the man who spreads pessimistic stories . . . cries for peace, or belittles our effort to win the war."43 All of this went beyond censorship, Bruce Porter notes, "into that quintessentially...

...Report the person who spreads pessimistic stories, divulges or seeks confidential military information, cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war. Send the names of such persons, even if they are in uniform, to the Department of Justice, Washington. Give all the details you can,...

...and Lies" that were hanging up all over the plant urging every worker to "become a detective" and to "report the man who spreads pessimistic stories ....for peace or belittles our efforts to win the war." The plant protection department of Scovili, as in the other main companies in the city, paid directly...

...the man who spreads pessimistic stories, divulges — or seeks — confidential military information, cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war. Send the names of such persons, even if they are in uniform, to the Department of Justice, Washington. Give all the details you can,...

...(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939), 122-23. readers to report to the Justice Department "the man who spreads pessimistic stories . . . , cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war."31 By the beginning of 1918, the Four-Minute Men were specifically encouraged to use atrocity...

...Wilson's words. The Administration paid for ads calling upon citizens to report to the Justice Department, "the man who spreads pessimistic stories ... cries...for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war." Whatever one thinks substantively about Wilson's policies during and then after the war, they were...

...everywhere," warned a magazine ad placed by the Committee on Public Information, a government agency. "Report the man who spreads pessimistic stories ....for peace or belittles our efforts to win the war." Such propaganda was hardly necessary. Every day the newspapers published lists of dead and wounded...

...American patriots and to bring anxiety and grief to American parents. dential military information, cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war. Send the names of such persons, even if they are in uniform, to the Department of Justice, Washington. Give all the details you can,...

...the man who spreads pessimistic stories, divulges — or seeks— confidential military information, cries for peace, or belittles our efforts to win the war. Send the names of such persons, even if they are in uniform, to the Department of Justice, Washington. Give all the details you can,...