Word: sloganed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, Mass. Democrat Thomas H. Leary, also without his knowledge or consent, was made a candidate for his party's State Convention. Democrat Leary promptly made a campaign speech, "I'm against me." Announced his slogan, "Be wary of Leary...
Appearing this week in U. S. and Canadian newspapers were the first advertisements of an institutional campaign, to promote the cinema. The slogan, MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT, had been MOVIES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT till it was noticed that the original initials spelled out MAYBE. Funds for the $1,000,000 campaign were raised half from the studios, a quarter from exhibitors affiliated with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total...
What really picqued Leary, however, was that already opponents had started popularizing the catching slogan, "Be Wary of Leary." Being a fighting man Leary retaliated by announcing a platform, including such tid-bits...
...Year Plan, a specific program for putting the vague slogan "Land to the Peasants," into effect started out the 1934 campaign brochure of the National Revolutionary Party. No one took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into...
Last March, to the alluring slogan "Your Ship Is Your Hotel," the Acadia began sailing into St. George, tying up, and keeping house for its passengers. For small-budget vacationists this was just the ticket, and Eastern's idea clicked profitably. Island innkeepers, as well as Furness Bermuda, which controls three hotels, were alarmed. They could easily imagine Bermuda harbors dotted with ship-hotels, the inns covered with cobwebs. Last June they had a bill introduced in Bermuda's Legislature barring ship-hotels from St. George and Hamilton harbors. But when the Governor-General, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald...