Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Framed on the wall of an office which overlooks an ivy-covered factory in Syracuse. N. Y. is a homely slogan writ large in the hand of the founder-president of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. Last week for the first time in the 33 years that Herbert Henry Franklin has been making air-cooled automobiles, the aging motor pioneer had cause to doubt his slogan. For three years he had doggedly fought off failure. He had cajoled his bankers into renewing and renewing bank loans which were thrice his company's current assets. Reorganization plans had fallen through...
Average age of the Youth Movement leaders is about 30. Its organization is permanent and hopes to become nationwide. Slogan of the party in the last campaign was: "Give the charter a chance," based on the fact that Kansas City's charter, adopted in 1926, was designed to create a non-partisan local government, but failed to do so. Termed "young radicals" by the opposition, the Citizens-Fusionists were charged with being a mask for the Republican party seeking to work against President Roosevelt. For its campaign slogans the Pendergast machine took: ''A vote...
...mailing lists, and under the State finance law, must purchase from the lowest responsible bidder. Today, in many groups, there is no lowest responsible bidder. ... All purchase terms are identical. . . . [NRA] has been used to promote the interests of the Captains of Industry and has substituted the slogan "Do as I say and charge what I tell you" for the intended slogan "Goods shall not be sold below cost...
Quite possibly they were. France fears Nazi penetration into Rumania and looks with utmost suspicion on the blue-swastikaed Iron Guard of M. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, mystic and fanatical "Rumanian Hitler." His slogan: "Jesus, King and country...
...DEATH-Carlton Wallace-Crime Club ($2). The extortioner's slogan is "pay or die," and so successful is he that Superintendent Bendilow of the Yard leaves job and pension, even simulates death to catch...