Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians' arrival was no surprise to Juan Domingo Perón. His Government had inspired the march, his official press had reported it handsomely. Perón had campaigned on the vote-getting slogan, "the land belongs to him who works it," and he was out to make a show of delivering...
...rapes, three disorderly conducts, and one housebreaking. Cracked an MP officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...
...Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced...
...Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...
...getting on with the peace, they had compromised with Molotov on a French proposal to internationalize the city (which has a preponderantly Italian population, but is economically an outlet for Central Europe and the Balkans). Italian nationalist extremists, who cheered the 1940 attack on France with the land-greedy slogan "Corsica, Nice, Savoy," would scarcely improve their claims to Trieste by demonstrations against the West...