Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witty, tobacco-spitting John William Bulow, first Democrat ever elected Governor of South Dakota, went to the Senate six years ago. He will be there no longer, for Republican Chandler Gurney, operator of radio station WNAX won his seat in a startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator...
Saving the Country. Last July the Tribune headlined the birth of an organization with BE A VOLUNTEER IN GREAT FIGHT TO SAVE NATION! and first announced its slogan: "Only 97 days are left to save your country!" Aim was to enroll citizens who would carry the Landon message by ringing doorbells and telephones, singing songs, making street- corner addresses ("Walk up to a crowd and boldly recite your speech!"). Volunteers were urged to end telephone conversations not with "Goodby" but with "Join the Volunteers." Recruiting offices were established on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower, ballyhoo appeared daily...
...Last week in Manhattan's Hippodrome a People's Committee Against Hearst solemnly held "public trial" of the old publisher, pronounced sentence of boycott on his newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cinemas. The slogan: "Don't read Hearst, don't see Hearst, don't hear Hearst...
...feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office of Acting Secretary of War Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention at Baltimore last August...
...Valley Mirror's slogan: "Free, White, and Twenty...