Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long have the men from Cayuga's waters unrestrainedly enjoyed the pleasures of wine, women and song. So long indeed, that the slogan "Freedom and Responsibility" has come to mean "Freedom from Responsibility" or "Laissez-faire" when applied to social life...
...slogan endured, despite the fact that in the 29 presidential elections since 1840 it has been wrong nearly half (twelve elections) the time. Cracked Democratic Strategist Jim Farley, after Franklin Roosevelt swept 46 states in 1936: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont...
Last week Maine laid the slogan to rest. By a vote of 63,710 to 36,065, the electorate of Maine decided to change the date of its elections. The basic reason for the old September date-the probability that hard winter weather and impassable, broken roads would keep most voters from the polls-had long since passed. Beginning in 1960, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, as the nation goes to the polls for state and congressional as well as presidential elections, so will go Maine...
...Sloganeers. The Russians were also going on the offensive in the diplomatic battle over disarmament. In London last week Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin bluntly brushed aside the laborious spell-out of the Western proposals to the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee. This left Russia free to exploit the disarmament issue in the twelfth U.N. General Assembly session beginning next week. There Russia can again hard-sell the simple slogan, "Let's all stop nuclear tests...
...response will be the somewhat more qualified slogan: "We will agree to stop tests if you will agree to stop making bombs." The U.S. proposals implied a far greater degree of genuine disarmament, but by virtue of its very simplicity the Russian slogan was likely to have its appeal to "peace-loving" neutrals, while the Russian press keeps up its efforts to show the U.S. as a warmonger (see cartoon...