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Word: sloganeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even a ghastly, sardonic slogan among Lichfield guards: "Shoot a prisoner and be made a sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Colonel & the Private | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...weeks ago a huge billboard covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Grave Election | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...fictional "composite," the resemblances to George Hill seemed more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back-yes, Herbert Tareyton is back!" "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" and "L.S./M.F.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Love That Account | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...railroads have taken many a slap from the airlines, and turned the other cheek. Last week at least one road had heard enough of the airline slogan "It's Cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Bed v. Chair | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Hollywood the Warner Brothers were peeved. Reasons: 1) an unfavorable review of their Cole Porter picture Night & Day in LIFE; 2) a TIME story on Warners' celebration of the talkies' 20th anniversary. Last week the brothers Warner-whose slogan is "combining good citizenship with good picture making"-barred the staffs of both magazines from their studios and their previews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Note on Free Speech | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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