Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life. Malenkov had stepped into the premiership bellowing the slogan, "A new life for all." There were to be more and better houses, amnesty for political prisoners, an abundance of consumer goods, honest art and, above all, peace. It was an obvious tactic: after a generation of Stalinist austerity and terror, the leader who could deliver these things might consolidate himself with the masses. As a matter of fact, everyone climbed on the "new life" bandwagon, including Khrushchev himself...
...Coca-Cola Co., the name Woodruff has been as indispensable as "refreshes" in its slogan. It was Ernest Woodruff, a Southern financier, who bought the company in 1919 (for $25 million) and started its expansion. Four years later he turned it over to his hustling son Robert, who soon changed Coke from a corner-drugstore treat into one of the world's most widely sold products. In 1939 Woodruff became chairman of the executive committee, but remained top boss while presidents came and went. This week, 65, Coke's retirement age, Woodruff at last stepped out (he will...
...record hundreds of such differences, then translated them into the sparse, nervous lines that are his trademark. But for years his main business was simply to protest evils and inequities. Shahn made his messages so plain that many of them were converted into posters by the addition of a slogan. During World War II Shahn became a poster artist for the Government, later put the horror and ruin of war into some of the most powerful pictures of his career. The changes of history were clearly not stranding Shahn; he still held a wickedly glinting mirror up to the woes...
...until I drop dead in the pit or the tundra sucks me up." Said Derevyanko: "You do not need freedom in order to live. As a citizen you are only on file [an expression frequently used in Soviet bureaucracy], but as a worker you live." The prisoners made a slogan of the general's words, shouted: "A man who is filed away can no longer work." When the order was given to go to work, 3,000 prisoners in the camp laughed...
...important, however, that the programs on which there is wide agreement be enacted as soon as possible. For as the year wears on, and election times comes closer, party lines are bound to harden. "Me Too" makes a poor election slogan, and the Democrats will have to start acting more like an opposition...