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More irksome to Lanusse than Perón's insults was a campaign slogan -"Campora in government, Perón in power"-being used by supporters of Hector Campora, the Peronista candidate for President. The government argued that the slogan violated the constitution, which states that the people do not govern except through elected representatives. On that ground, the junta filed suit in the National Electoral Court demanding that Peron's Justicialist Liberation Front, which had been given a good chance to win the election, be dissolved. If that happens, Peron will be left without a legal means...
...trees is a notch in his gun." This line, an advertising slogan for the Camel cigarette people, appeared more than once in the Service News...
...demand of the radicals is that the government create by next year 500,000 new jobs for educated unemployed Indians. In support of the demand, one delegate reminded party members that while the party campaigned on the slogan Garibi hatao (erase poverty), there remain considerable numbers of Indians who are undernourished, unable to afford medical treatment, and who do not have homes. Mrs. Gandhi agreed, but remarked that banishing poverty was "not a thing for which one can specify a definite date." She also called for an India free of communal hostilities, economic exploitation and backwardness. These words have been...
From the first, Breuer showed an original spirit; he slept on top of a bathtub in an apartment he shared with two women. He quickly questioned the Bauhaus slogan of "Art and Technology-a new Unity." It implies, he said, that "art is wonderful, technology is wonderful, so the two together must be twice as wonderful. That is not so." As for the famous tag-"form follows function"-Breuer wryly added: "Not always." What he aimed at was "something simpler, more elemental, more generous and more human than a machine...
Hicks stuck to her re-election slogan--performance counts"--throughout the race. One supporter proclaimed proudly on election night that Hicks had a 100 per cent attendance record in Congress. "The people in the 9th District can feel safe; they know they're represented," she said...