Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...Slogan for the movement, headed by Dr. Elmer G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary, is "America for Christ." Combined with the Roman Catholic Holy Year, it may make 1950 the most religion-conscious twelvemonth the modern world has yet known...
...Labor slogan was "retrenchment." It would mean a halt to further expansion and perhaps a cutback in social services, wage freezing and other painful economic measures, all designed to strengthen British competitive power in the dollar market. What retrenchment really added up to was an attempt to inject a strong dose of competition and incentive into an increasingly security-minded Britain...
...French were cautious about Germany, they were bold about the matter of unity. Said France's Georges Bidault: "A united Europe can only come about by giving up some sovereignty..." France's Pierre-Henri Teitgen, underground hero and a leader of M.R.P., naively proposed that the slogan, "My country, right or wrong," be outlawed...
With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...