Word: sloganed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah plunged into the tax debate as follows: "Balancing the budget has been made a slogan. But we delude ourselves if we think we're going to balance the budget by simply passing this tax bill. We must take up the question of stabilizing prices. The gold dollar is no longer an honest dollar. How many suicides must we register, how many insane must we put into asylums, how many farms must go under the hammer before we do something to stabilize our currency...
...what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius, the Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento of him was the White House parrot who kept saying "The Depression is over! The Depression is over!" In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion...
...wage cut. Copenhagen papers accused "Fascist elements" among the bacon men of a daring, underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
...floor, and even a trifle abashed walked out; only the noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols and someone else threw out an empty cartoon of ice cream, in self defense one must surmise and thereby rose the tale. And that about...
...because there are more loose nickels than dimes in present-day pockets, Editor Warren B. Cody chose that price last week for his new magazine Beer. No dilly-dallyer, Beer goes straight to the point: the cover shows an unmistakable glass of foaming lager on a red background. Its slogan shouts WE WANT BEER! Its publishers are housed in the same building with the New York headquarters of the We Want Beer Association Inc. A score of thirsty articles and beer-slopped cartoons attest a similar need of quenching...