Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before the rest of the country was ready for war, undergraduate opinion at Harvard in the year 1916 had crystallized. Under the slogan Preparedness, the alma mater of tub-thumping Teddy Roosevelt rallied to arms, with a Harvard Regiment readily recruited and almost 1000 men receiving training at the outset...
...Harvey Dow Gibson took over New York's World's Fair of 1940, cut prices and stressed "Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!" at Flushing Flats. Chamber of Commerce President Marshall Dill and Vice President William Monahan took over San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, cut prices and sloganed: "Let's have a good time" at Treasure Island. Last week the Dill slogan looked a little better than the Gibson...
...when Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman, radio entertainer, composer of hymns and hillbilly songs, revived it in Texas to dramatize his campaign for Governor. In a sound truck with a speaker's stand on top, with a hillbilly band and singers, and an old-age pension slogan lifted from one of his songs ("Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!"), Lee O'Daniel won the Democratic nomination for Governor over eleven other hopefuls...
...France for the French" was the slogan behind an entire series of decrees issued last week, the most significant of which provided for a review of all naturalizations granted since Aug. 10, 1927, the date of the existing naturalization law. A committee appointed by Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert will examine the case of each person naturalized since that date and will have the power to revoke citizenship if it deems the individual unworthy "of being a Frenchman. "Attracted by the ease of our life and by the prospect of quick profits," wrote Le Jour in sentences reminiscent of Germany...
...Czech troops. Last week with the calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were registered for Army service. Behind all these were 1,400 battalions of Local Defense Volunteers, whose name was last week changed to the Home Guard (thus robbing the L. D. V. of their slogan, "We'll give 'em Hell D. V."). The Home Guard are older men, trained at night and over weekends, with a hard core of War I veterans. Their officers' chief concern was to make them overcome their scruples, be prepared to demolish British property when necessary...