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Word: sloganeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon, presumably next month. . . . The attempt at the start of the war to introduce a deflationary policy by lowering wages and prices and extending working hours met such resistance in practice that it had to be largely abandoned. . . . The eight-hour day had to be restored. . . . Furthermore, while the slogan at the beginning of the war was to concentrate essential production in the most efficient plants and shut down the others, this principle is now being reversed and production is being scattered as widely as possible to keep up employment. . . . Under Field Marshal Hermann Göring as head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Return to Orthodoxy? | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Last week in Tennessee, which allows a person to pay the $1 poll tax for any member of his immediate family. Knoxville pastors and prominent citizens fancied up a new attack on the tax under a cynical, seasonal slogan: "Give a Poll Tax for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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