Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan 'the end justifies the means' is not admissible in a bishop or anyone else. By not returning the goods . . . the bishop becomes an accomplice...
...Stalin can't see into the election booth, but God can." With this slogan, in Italy's 1949 election, Catholic Action workers backed up the Vatican's excommunication of any Roman Catholic who gave his vote to the Communists. Last week the ten-year-old slogan was dusted off. The Vatican's Holy Office published a decree giving Catholics another set of instructions. It is not permissible, said the decree, "for Catholics to give their vote to those parties or candidates which, although not professing principles in contrast to Catholic doctrine, nonetheless . . . unite with Communists...
...decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery." Catchy as the slogan is, and eager as they, are to make the city prosper, Venice's city councilors last week were still resisting both automobiles and skyscrapers...
Currently China's people are being exhorted by song ("Manure Sources Are Plentiful") and slogan ("Make manure by soaking and smoking") to accumulate 10 billion tons of fertilizer. But so many Chinese are tied up on other "shock programs" that despite China's 600 million-man labor force there is a shortage of manure collectors; to find hands for the task, Hopei province has been obliged to abandon eight out of twelve high-priority irrigation projects planned for this year...
...want to be in business tomorrow, you better go today and purchase your records at Lormar." That, testified a witness at last week's Senate McClellan committee hearings into jukebox racketeering, was the slogan of Chicago's Lormar Distributing Co.-and not even Madison Avenue could have sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum...