Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then why the arms failure? The chief reason was that the Administration was more worried by a presidential campaign in 1952 than a world war. It tried to run the arms program in a way to inconvenience no one-worker, employer or consumer. "Business as usual" was the prevailing slogan. Unions gave up none of their wage demands or strike privileges; businessmen, in the words of one top executive, "too often moved heaven & earth, politically and otherwise, to keep civilian production going on as usual...
...probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze get in your own backyard...
...what appeared to be an organized campaign of vandalism, a campaign booth was mysteriously dismantled, several posters were stolen, and "Contributions solicited here $25 a pint," was scribbled under a campaign slogan...
...Council's 125-man Consultative Assembly (equivalent in theory to the U.S. House of Representatives) meets twice yearly. Since 1949 it has contemplated issuing a common European passport, building a Jules Verne type of tunnel under the English Channel and outlawing the slogan "My country, right or wrong." But its counsels have produced little. Basically they represent a wish, not an urge...
...whose son was to loom even more largely in Filipino destiny, said of the guerrillas: Let's civilize 'em with a Krag rifle-and tried to. Then came years of civil rule, under strong and foresighted men like William Howard Taft and Henry Stimson. Taft's slogan was "The Philippines for the Filipinos." The U.S., which had always looked down its nose at colonial powers, persuaded itself that it was really engaged in a great anticolonial experiment: to make the Philippines "a show window of democracy...