Word: sloganeered
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Before the National Assembly last week was a bill to extend military service from 12 to 18 months. The Reds had fought it with the slogan: "Down with 18 months' service!" But their campaign melted away when Paix et Liberté countered: "Down with 18 months' service! We want three years' service, same as in Russia!" Then the comrades showed how badly they had been hurt. They decided that Paix et Liberté was so dangerous that it had better be ignored. Mention of it was banned in the Red press...
...Dallas, Restaurant Owner Robert Sprinkle Pool predicted he would be swept into office again as a County Public Weigher on the slogan: "A false weight is an abomination to the Lord, but a just balance is His delight." Nobody disputed him -he had no rivals for the job, and it pays no salary...
...completely taken in by all this attention, but did his best to oblige. After a look around the real Statler, he asked: "Where do you put your ash barrels?" At week's end, he headed back for the New Hampshire hills after agreeing to change the slogan of his inn. New one, unless he heard from another set of lawyers: "The Ritz of the Sticks...
...original V.F.W., conceived in 1936, on the New Jersey campus, had a similar goal with the slogan of "America for Americans...
...According to another legend, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco (Camels) has also been advised by letter writers to use the slogan "In Ancient Times, Camels Carried Wise Men." The ad reader would supposedly supply the converse. The legend among hucksters is that Reynolds has avoided using the first half because it feared American Tobacco would supply the second half in its ads: "In Modern Times, Wise Men Carry Luckies...