Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union and not by the Committee to Defend Defense. After he has spoken, both sides are free to question him, and the very fact that audiences and members are of every political color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy minimum. National as well as international issues nowadays are as involved as an Italian spaghetti and have to be elaborately unravelled before they can be understood. This function is admirably served by the Political Union, not only because it gives voice to all attitudes in fair...
...later speaker, Spencer Klaw '41, former president of the CRIMSON, warned the peace strikers that "we must not be sold on a program for beating the imperialists at their own game on a slogan of making the world safe for democracy...
Perhaps more important to the success of the church is the good-neighbor policy Dr. Otterbein has fostered from the beginning. As neat brick bungalows mushroomed up in North Austin, he and his flock kept up steady personal evangelism on their own blocks. Their slogan was, "When you see a moving van, spend a nickel," referring to their pastor's request that any member who saw a moving van in his neighborhood call Dr. Otterbein so that he could go right over...
...well know that moral issues are only camouflage. The Civil War was not fought to free the slaves; that was only a talking point for the North. The World War was not fought for Democracy; that was only a slogan for the Allies. And the present war is not being fought for the preservation of Sacred Ideals. . . . Nevertheless, how incongruous it is that we should all glibly prate such ideals...
From the nutritional standpoint, dairy, fruit and vegetable products have long been a signal deficiency in the U. S. national diet. The next phase of defense is almost certain to see Nutrition emerge as a national slogan. To Agriculture officials, the task of feeding the democracies interlocks nicely with their own long-term aims: move the farmers out of surplus export crops, and give the U. S. better-balanced rations...