Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dried. By all the signs, Bob Taft, backed by Wisconsin G.O.P. Boss Tom Coleman and National Committeeman Cyrus Philipp, was going to be a shoo-in over California's Governor Earl Warren and Harold Stassen. But after Ike Eisenhower's great day in next-door Minnesota, a slogan began to sweep across Wisconsin: "A vote for Warren is a vote for Eisenhower...
...Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver was driving along the highways and byways, ambling up & down the wintry main streets, drawling, shaking hands and winning votes. Harry Truman's friends, suddenly worried, hammered together a campaign. They hit something, not necessarily a nail, on the head with a slogan: "Be human, vote Truman...
...attended an International Fascist Conference in Sweden, which adopted the slogan "Fascists of the World Unite!" In 1949, he stumped Hanover as a Neo-Nazi, won a seat in the Bundestag in the first West German election. This entitled him to a listing in the German Who's Who, which accepted his assertion that he was born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1911 (Smyrna's public records were destroyed by fire...
...Minnesota, Ohio) does the ballot clearly show which presidential candidate each prospective delegate favors. In others, the voter either sees no indication on the ballot or is confronted with some more or less vague bit of prose. In Oregon, where the candidate for delegate may have a twelve-word slogan after his name on the ballot, one 1948 aspirant offered the voter this guidance: "You may have full confidence I will do my duty as delegate...
...medium of exchange. French occupation authorities also outlawed the Saar's pro-German Democratic Party, censored German newspapers, expelled Catholic priests who opposed the separation of the Saar from the German bishopric of Trier. So long as West Germany itself was destitute, Saarlanders cynically adopted the slogan, "Our hearts belong to Germany, but our stomachs feel for France." But as West Germany's standard of living improved, Saar stomachs as well as hearts felt drawn to the Vaterland. Last week matters came to a head when France gave Commissioner Grandval a fancy new title: ambassador to the Saar...