Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia, a disorganized opposition to Governor Herman Talmadge included a 400-lb. state representative named C. O. ("Fat") Baker and a pretty, public nurse who once won a county election with the slogan: "You kiss the babies, I'll put their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack...
Freedom from want was downright Communistic propaganda. Said he: "A fellow who is free from want is dead." And freedom from fear was just "a political slogan. Our American pioneers didn't have to apologize for their fear of the Indians." The council hastily reversed itself, and instructed the city manager to look through the Constitution of the U.S. for a "more appropriate quotation...
...bother to attend all of them. There will be no street-corner meetings ("Not here, y'know," Cockshut shudders), and there will be no loudspeaker cars, except on the actual day of the election ("Don't approve of that sort of thing," says Cockshut aggressively). "Our only slogan," added Dr. Cockshut, "is 'Lucas-Tooth.' That will appear on 15,000 stickers...
TRUMAN CAN REACH HIS NATIONAL OUTPUT GOAL OF TRILLION PER ANNUM [TIME, JAN. 16] WITH VERY LITTLE ACCELERATION OF NEW DEAL INFLATION PROGRAM. SUGGEST SLOGAN FOR 1952: "A GOOD FIVE-CENT DOLLAR...
Three Black Marks. Britain, however, is no nursery school. Labor's record in guiding Britain's destinies will be judged by results, not by devotion or good intentions. In 1945 Labor won with the slogan "Labor Faces the Future." In 1950, as Labor faces the voters, it stands on a record made as the party in power...