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Word: sloganeering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Retail Dry Goods Association, and gave them a Johnsonian earful by way of reply: "Generally speaking the dead cats are fewer in number and have lost some of their ripeness and velocity. . . . But a storm is brewing. . . . There will be a distinct movement to repeal this act under this slogan of 'oppression of small enterprise.' It won't be a forthright open movement for repeal. These gentlemen do not dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator other than Carter Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Heckling from the Hill | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...pictures of Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jews Up | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...People's University" had 2,615 enthusiastic students, 71 teachers. The students paid nothing for their schooling and the teachers received nothing for their instruction. Founder Narvesen had just added a twenty-first building to his rent-free campus and ten more courses, each complete with a slogan, to the 58 he started last October. Lansingites were proud as peacocks and Michigan's State Department of Instruction was forming a special division to promote the Lansing plan throughout the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: People's University | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Slogan of Try. Narvesen's salesmanship course is "If you can SELL-well-nearly all is well." He proved that proposition to bewildered Lansingites before the course started. When he had finished talking to them, Lansing manufacturers, preachers, city officials, bankers found they had been "sold" on the idea of letting the school use their buildings free of charge even for light & heat. Other citizens discovered their spare time signed away to teaching their hobbies. Printers had agreed to put out catalogs and sales literature for nothing. Residents of Lansing and neighboring towns were loudly exhorted to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: People's University | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

With a 199 majority in the House against them, Republican Representatives were still in no mood to give battle to the President. "Watchful waiting" was the legislative slogan of Minority Leader Bertrand Snell of New York who declared: "It would be foolish for the minority to criticize until we are acquainted with the President's program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harmony | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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