Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angry jeers by some World War II veterans. In Chicago an ex-G.I. started a "Veterans Against MacArthur" club. Overnight it spread to almost every college campus and to more than a dozen large cities. In Boston, student veterans at Harvard, M.I.T. and Boston U. rallied around a slogan: "Give him a medal, but not the White House." The extreme criticism was matched by extreme praise in the Hearst press which had been beating the tom-toms and claimed the general as its "Man of the Hour" (TIME, March 15). In general, the U.S. press welcomed...
Last week in Italy, both sides were concentrating on door-to-door campaigning. The Christian Democratic party, believing that a fourth of anti-Communists failed to vote in the last election, had a slogan: "He who doesn't vote gives his ballot to Italy's enemies...
Campaigning under the slogan, "Don't Be an Ostrich, Get Your Head out of the Sand," the group picked up 147 names in Dunster Thursday evening, returning after a fracas Wednesday with members of the Wallace committee who were offering an anti-UMT scroll...
...Carl C. Countryman of New York, who is campaigning for President on the slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen, his countrymen for Countryman," suffered the loss of a gold-plated musical saw he had played for 25 years. "My heart is busted," said the 74-year-old poet-teacher-lecturer...
Rallying behind the slogan "equal pay for male laborers," Union waiters are renewing agitation for a change in present work conditions, which they consider both unfair and demoralizing...