Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burly, unconventional, democratic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of New York's Daily News has for a long time urged on his 1,950,000 New York readers a preparedness slogan: Two Ships For One. Editor Patterson was very worried about how to defend the U. S. Atlantic Coast while the Fleet stayed in the Pacific to watch Japan...
...WORK LIKE HELL!" was presently adopted by Trade Unionist Ernest Bevin as the slogan of the Ministry of Labor and he soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...
...Svenska National-Socialistika Parti (Nazi Party) existed in Sweden as far back as 1930, with a leader named Birger Furugärd and a slogan of "Sweden, Awake!" Later it merged with the larger National Socialist Workers Party founded in 1933 by Sven Olaf Lindholm, who likes to be called Sweden's Hitler. In the 1936 elections the combined parties polled 1.6% of the vote for the Riksdag. They have never won a Riksdag seat...
Referring to a widely publicized poem by an undergraduate satirizing Germany's slogan "Gott Mit Uns", he wrote that President Lowell and the University "stand branded before the world and posterity as abettors of international animosity, and traitors to the sacred cause of humanity...
Kelly & Nash quickly agreed with Mr. Horner on a Horner henchman as the gubernatorial candidate: Harry B. Hershey, 54, a genial party hack. Mr. Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...