Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Presidents do not make national policies, he did not presume to set up a Party program but confined himself to straight-forward criticism, bold but not bitter, vigorous but not violent, scorching but not sarcastic. Excerpts: "An endless succession of interferences and experiments was inaugurated under the deceptive slogan of a new deal. This policy of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded on a philosophy of try-anything-once, was initiated under the title of economic planning. No one of its proponents has even been able to define the New Deal or to explain what...
...year-old Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
...Commons: ¶ Cheered whirlwind efforts to secure British control of the sea and air by Air Minister Viscount Swinton and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare, who is popularizing his new slogan "BRITAIN MEANS BUSINESS...
Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting...
...awaken women's minds to finance (TIME, May 27, 1935). A W.I.A. survey had shown that women controlled 80% of U. S. life insurance, 65% of savings accounts, 48% of railroad securities, 44% of utility stocks, 40% of real estate. Director Curtis adopted as the organization's slogan: ''One Woman Can Be Forceful; One Hundred Women Can Be Helpful; One Thousand Women Can Be Powerful, BUT ONE MILLION WOMEN-UNITED ¯ARE INVINCIBLE...