Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has used the popular slogan, '99 and 44-100 percent pure--it floats," since the '20's to illustrate how irrationally people think. "After all," he argues, "no one knows what the other 56-100ths percent is. It may be ground glass...
...Holcombo concedes that part of the Ivory Soap slogan is true. "It floats," he says, "Is a perfectly reasonable claim, the truth of which anyone can find out by putting a bar in water. But the question of its purity is never answered...
...Republican Party-which has not had a winning campaign slogan since 1946's "Had Enough?"- last week reached back to the 19th Century in search of another. In Elgin, Ill., Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson suggested that in view of the RFC scandal (see Investigations), there was nothing more appropriate for the G.O.P. m 1952 than the phrase used by the Democratic Party in 1884. The slogan: "Throw the Rascals...
...familiar with his (Conant's) political attitudes, his scandalous tolerance of fellow-traveling professors, his enthusiasm for raising the already confiscatory rates of the inheritence tax, his desire to put our universities under federal control by grants of federal tax monies, and his repetitions of the Communist slogan of a 'classless society,' will not be astonished at his desire to regiment even those physically handicapped." (From the February 26 issue...
...were 15 tons of war materiel (including one mountain cannon, 22 heavy machine guns, cases of antitank grenades and time bombs). The passage led to the sea. Police figured the party planned to distribute the arms by boat. On the cavern's wall was the slogan: "These are the weapons of peace...