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Word: sloganeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Union expects to allow the movement to grow of its own scored, and its only part will be to serve as a reservoir of the blue and white buttons bearing the legend "No Wilson Promises," the slogan of the movement's supporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. Starts Button Campaign To Prevent More War Hysteria | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

...handful of Americans who have had fifteen months in which to get out--these are but straws in the wind. The big push for intervention is yet to come. And in this temporary lull the Student Union is hollering for an organized expression of peace sentiment. Using the apt slogan, "No Wilson Promises," it is seeking to dramatize the tragic parables between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO WILSON PROMISES | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

National Contesters includes housewives, doctors, lawyers, merchants and a great many printers. Printers have to watch their spelling, often consult dictionaries, which eventually leads them to try their hand at slogans. Peculiar is the caste system of the contest business. A crossword puzzler looks down on jinglers, but slogan-makers lord it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Contesters' Holiday | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...scenarist, Sturges wrote a tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

With "Vat 69 or Fight" as their campaign slogan, several serious-minded youths in Leverett House are initiating a vigorous campaign for the election of prohibitionist Babson as President of these United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BOOST BABSON, FIGHT SINNIN' AT COCKTAIL PARTIES | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

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