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Outshining the Sun. Tommy D'Alesandro's slogan was: "Elect a big-league mayor!" His campaign cards simply listed the Orioles' home-game schedule and the claim: "50 Years of Progress in Eight Years." For his first two terms, he claimed a lot of progress: 87 new schools, firehouses and other facilities, 1,400 miles of new streets, 21,947 new street lights. His son had been acquitted of all charges, and Tommy D'Alesandro shrugged off the old scandals. "No one," he said modestly, "is infallible. I haven't done everything right...
...Tories, in a manifesto of their own, replied with a ringing slogan, "Invest in Success," coined by Chancellor Rab Butler. "After these few years of Conservative government," crowed the manifesto, "the economy is in much better shape and the nation in much better heart. Now we must harness these efforts to a new and powerful surge of national effort." Despite their confident tone, and a widespread prognosis that they would increase their overall majority in the House of Commons, from their present 19 to perhaps 100 seats, the Tories are by no means a shoo-in. As ex-Prime Minister...
...made no real effort to recruit the intellectuals. In that year, however, the Popular Front was formed. Party discipline was temporarily relaxed and three programs which appealed to the liberals of the time were emphasized; opposition to fascism, organization of labor unions, and support of the New Deal. The slogan was "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
...offenders twice as big a proportion of motorists as they did in 1940. Many of the offenders were sentenced to a course in a driver improvement school. Los Angeles has put teeth in the principle that "the pedestrian has the right of way." In most of the U.S., this slogan merely encourages the walker without inhibiting the driver; in Los Angeles, motorists know that the courts will almost always hold the motorist at fault...
...crisis, Congressmen, State Department officials, and military authorities have spent much of their time discussing the frightening alternative. The idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...