Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week their first batch of twelve anti-sabotage posters was in use. Each had a sharply pointed Hungerford cartoon, an admonitory paragraph by Sherman, ended with the slogan: "You are a production soldier . . . America's first line of defense is here." Sample: A dope in overalls talking his head off while Hitler...
Campaign. In Hornell, N. Y., Thomas F. Curry, onetime Coughlinite county chairman, ran his own campaign against H.R. 1776, slapped his own slogan on his billiards-parlor wall...
...Berlin more than 200 mass meetings were held last week. Their slogan: Up the flag, for Germany determines the future. In Great Britain the Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) was expected soon; Britons got out their gas masks and remarked that late in February the ground is soggy and receptive to gas. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister John Miller Andrews both warned Ireland that an invasion was coming soon. The moon waned...
...Have your baby rocked by a Harvard man," seems to be the slogan of a new service inaugurated by the Harvard Student Employment Office. Now Cambridge mothers can leave little Junior to the tender care of Cantab nursemaids. Workers in the baby-tending service, past-masters at the art of diaper-changing, have already watched over a hundred little cherubs. --Yale Daily News...
...months when Germany was preparing for the all-out assault against France her most effective propaganda slogan was: "England will fight to the last Frenchman." By dinning it into French ears day after day, week after week, German propagandists of the radio and the press planted suspicions which helped poison France's power to resist. Last week the propaganda machine of the Berlin-Rome Axis altered two proper nouns, tried out the old slogan again against the U. S. and Britain...