Word: sloganeered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years I had been looking in vain for a worthy Democrat. Now my quest is ended. The silver-tongued Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee, in his keynote speech opening the Democratic Convention, came up with the greatest political slogan ever conceived by the mind of man, to wit: "The Democratic Party-dedicated to the greater glory...
...soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that won't get you." One of his most successful ads showed a ripe-lipped lass raising a bumper glass of grape juice with the invitation: "The lips that touch Welch's are all that touch mine...
...year out of high school in Chicago, he launched the Gilbert Youth Research Organization to sample teenagers' tastes and buying habits for businessmen. He has run 1,900 surveys for clients ranging from candy-bar manufacturers to the U.S. Army Recruiting Service, whose "Retire at 37" slogan stemmed from Gilbert's finding that modern youth prizes security over adventure. He uses 5,000 interviewers-all teen-agers themselves-in 420 U.S. cities and towns...
...highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby Tim. "How old are you?" the nurse asked. "Nineteen." The nurse took...
Last year Congress made the slogan compulsory for all coins and paper cur rency (TIME, June 20, 1955). Last week the Senate passed a bill making it the official motto of the U.S. Said Wyoming' Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney reporting on the bill for the Judiciary Committee: "It will be of great spiritua and psychological value to our country...