Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city's school books filled with British propaganda, discerned a plot afoot to return...
Again your columnist makes a plea for contributions. We are reminded of a slogan in a certain Chicago newspaper column which goes, "The Wake depends upon its friends. Help! Help!" Because of the peculiarities of NSCS schedules, it is difficult for us to do the necessary legwork for the other classes...
...broadcasting field has been WQXR, and he remained its president when the Times completed negotiations last week (pending FCC approval). Present station policies will be maintained, but in smart, inventive President Hogan and WQXR, the Times got a handy hedge against the postwar day when its famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might have to be augmented by "All the News That's Fit to Facsimilize...
...questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan of World War I's nurse Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough...
...Seabees' high-sounding motto: Construimus-Batuimus (We Build, We Fight!). Their favorite slogan, in words they can all read: "Can Do, Will...