Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked him away in what was to become the Ministry of Education. There he hammered through the Education Act of 1944 with the slogan, "Education is the spearhead of social reform," giving all British children for the first time the assurance of education...
...Conant report is, then, a political document, designed to sway school boards and school principals. It is written in terms which the least sophisticated can really grasp, equipped with check lists and inventories which a ten-year-old could easily administer. The appeal throughout is to that great political slogan: individual freedom and variation. Although the major emphasis of the report is on providing higher academic standards for the intelligent minority, this appeal is surrounded with recommendations which appeal to every special interest group from vocationalism to the mentally retarted...
Instead Willy Brandt was speaking, to the point of hoarseness, to make sure that the Communists got less than their 2.7% of the last vote. The Communist Party is outlawed in the Federal Republic but free to run in quadripartite Berlin. The despised Communists campaigned with the slogan "A vote for the Communists is a vote for normalization" and "Vote against the occupation parties." At a claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government...
...East Germany's latter-day progress to the West German level of 1949 ("Eat your fill and dress modestly"). This probably gives them now the highest living standard behind the Iron Curtain. The ineffable East German Communist Boss, Walter Ulbricht, a Soviet citizen, now proclaims the inevitable propaganda slogan: "Catch Up with West Germany in Per Capita Production...
...slogan," cried Prime Minister Robert Menzies in his booming campaign voice, "is Australia Unlimited, and we pronounce it with confidence." But for all their leader's enthusiasm, it was with something short of unlimited confidence that the members of Australia's Liberal-Country coalition government approached last week's elections to the Senate and the House. In the nine years since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend...