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Word: sloganeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colonel Blunt | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

After that the battlefront settled down. Communiques late in the week told of sporadic raids, light action. The reports were only another version of the slogan of the 31st Infantry (see below). The slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: No Mama, No Papa | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Plane-hungry U.S. and Filipino troops under General Douglas MacArthur adopted a slogan: "Better buy one bomber than be buried on Bataan." They agreed to contribute as much as a month's pay per man to a "Bomber for Bataan" fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tales from Bataan | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...slogan for the blackout seems to be "business as usual." In a final statement to the residents of Cambridge, Major Ralph W. Robart, Chief Air Raid Warden, asked that "everyone carry on life and business as near usual as is possible during the blackout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS' COOPERATION CALLED FOR IN BLACKOUT | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...pressagents in Washington appear to have been working overtime to coin a catchy victory slogan for America's war effort. They can relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1942 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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