Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jefferson's ideals. And Author Agar, in his best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these are nevertheless revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation...
...account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward VII (the seat was too low), of a lovers' quarrel patched up by a specially aromatic dinner...
Under the fighting slogan, "Be Wary of Leary," he promised to take care of his wife and family first, his relatives second, and the public last. He refused to affiliate himself with any sort of club, even the Fat Men's Club...
...attack learning in an independent fashion. If indifference means no more than this, who can object? But if the criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will...
...when John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America entered subscriptions for all its members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed to apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength,' to its press. . . . A most promising start has now been made. . . . The possibilities are unlimited for building a national press to offset the great trustified propaganda machine which the employing interests have established for the manufacture of public opinion...