Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid this meaning future we are willing to go far in helping England to win this war. Our national policy today may be summed up as "all aid to England short of war." Yet this is a meaningless slogan, because "aid" can merge imperceptibly into "war." Many of us opposed helping England in the belief that once you set foot on that dangerous path there is no turning back. Already we have progressed from planes and guns to destroyers. Next will be army planes, then the repeal of the embargo on loans to belligerents, then the lifting...
...enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather on an old hat, his new Government revised his threadbare slogan to read: New Order in Greater East Asia...
...labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes, ships, soldiers, drew a Churchill-like man with finger pointed at the onlooker-reminiscent of a 1914 Kitchener poster, "Your Country Needs...
Every tongue in Japan rolled this Konoyism with great relish, though no one knew precisely what it meant. It was variously used as a sales slogan, an expletive, a philosophic concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation - the one on which Prince Konoye rode to the Premiership in July - was as a promise of a one-party political system, vaguely like that of Germany or Italy. Last week, speaking before the Preparatory Com mittee for the New National Structure, Prince Konoye dispelled that illusion and made one thing very clear: he intends...
...will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...