Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sugar, tobacco and pineapple kingdom, hulking Benito Remedies, 64, was more or less a law unto himself. To make good & sure, he had for 20 years bought a seat in Congress from one party or another ("I'll pay twice as much as anyone else," was his slogan). That gave him the comfortable protection of congressional immunity from arrest for such peccadillos as slugging impertinent policemen or beating up bus drivers. Over the years 76 charges, none of which had been prosecuted, piled up against...
Another story centers around Prague's new slogan, "We Live More Joyfully." A reporter interviews a worker on whether the slogan is true. Of course, replies the worker: "My wife and I work in a factory. I get up at 5 o'clock . . . rush to the dairy ... am third in line ... get some milk and the last two rolls. We are joyful that we have a breakfast. We leave for work before 6 o'clock, and there are still some seats on the streetcar. We are joyful that we can sit down ... When we come home...
...year-old Enquirer, Cincinnati's only morning and Sunday paper, has been on the market for more than three years (TIME, May 3, 1948). Since the death of Owner John R. McLean,* the Enquirer, famed for its slogan "Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer" has been held in trust for his heirs by Washington's American Security & Trust Co. The bank wanted to sell the paper; it thinks the newspaper market is at its peak. Last week, Times-Star Publisher Hulbert Taft, 74-year-old cousin of Senator Robert A. Taft, indicated that the bank probably would accept...
...Southern Railway System 14 years ago, Ernest Eden Norris set a goal for himself: humanize the railroad. A longtime railroader who got his start as a telegrapher, Norris had a brash air about him, a funny story for every occasion and a firm belief in the Southern's slogan: "Look ahead-look South!" But the Southern needed more than humanizing; it was deep in debt and losing money fast. Norris decided to fix that...
...years Finance Minister of the country. Mohammed Mossadegh entered politics in 1906. An obstinate oppositionist, he was usually out of favor and several times exiled. In 1919, horrified by a colonial-style treaty between Britain and Persia, he hardened his policy into a simple Persia-for-the-Persians slogan. While the rest of the world went through Versailles, Manchuria, the Reichstag fire, Spain, Ethiopia and a World War, Mossadegh kept hammering away at his single note. Nobody in the West heard...