Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from every entry of every House of Harvard College" is the slogan of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee as it passes into the final day of its drive for speakers and entertainers to work in the Settlement Houses of Greater Boston...
Through driving rain, Rotherhithe dockers and housewives plodded to the polls, elected Laborite Robert Joseph Mellish by a 4,444 majority. Twitted by jubilant Laborite Herbert Morrison, Tories replied: "Wait until tomorrow." With the U.S. Republican slogan "Had enough?" Tory leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden had energetically stumped the former Tory stronghold of North Paddington, which had only gone Labor in the last general election. But middle-class North Paddington elected Laborite William James Field by a 3,000 majority...
...Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work in all the exotic backgrounds he wants; after a "decent interval," Steve Canyon can even go to Terry's China, on which Caniff-who has never been...
...onetime reporter, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon switched to advertising when she found out that the advertising manager made more than the city editor, and eventually landed at Macy's. There her copy (such as Macy's famed slogan, "It's Smart To Be Thrifty") established her as the store's highest paid copywriter. She went on to Wanamaker's, then to Gimbels. As its No. 1 huckster for the last six years, stout, bosomy Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, "almost 50," earns almost $100,000 a year for such sloganeering as "Gimbels HAS," "NOBODY but nobody beats Gimbels...
...Conservative Telegraph's gossip columnist wistfully admired the slogan "Had enough? Vote Republican," and suggested that British Tories negotiate for the loan...