Word: sloganeer
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...Irish of local pride; but he showed his genuine humanity. A few quiet chuckles about the funny things that happened at the ball and afterwards might help us all to genital humanity; and the long, ugly business of reform might seem easier. we might take as the reform's slogan: "Wasn't it a ball!" Michael J. Nevak...
...Deadly Slogan. Henry Styles Bridges (he dropped the "Henry" years ago in order to avoid confusion with the West Coast's Red-lining longshoremen's labor boss, Harry Bridges) was only nine when his father, a Maine farmer and storekeeper, died. "Upon my father's death," Bridges once said, "I worked the farm and met the responsibilities of manhood through my youth." At the University of Maine he earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved...
...compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly campaign slogan: "Landon-Bridges Falling Down." The convention turned to Chicago Publisher Frank Knox as its vice-presidential nominee, and Bridges decided to run for the Senate. He won easily, despite the Roosevelt landslide...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has had a vast influence on Visser 't Hooft. "Barth felt that the church had almost lost its soul in making adjustments to historical trends," he says. "He called the church again to be itself." He remembers that the "unofficial slogan" of the men who met at Edinburgh and Oxford in 1937 to launch the ecumenical movement was "Let the Church be the Church." And this, he says, "did not mean that the church should run away from the world. It did mean that the church was not merely an echo of trends...
...simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces. Foreign visitors saw cotton gins made of boxes and old boards, textile machinery with wooden parts. In Sinkiang, when they ran out of steel for a pipeline, it was finished with bamboo tubing. A Honan...