Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerable importance was Stanley Baldwin's bluff effusion at the dinner, since it outlined, no doubt, the slogan policy of the Tories for the next elections. Speaking with studied warmth, he declared that in England lay the last hope of the world for the preservation of Democracy; elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform...
...rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions of the left wing who plumped for a frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will shock the Labourites into...
...Party's "primary election plank'' Leader Hitler announced last week, "Our Honor Above All." The Party's campaign slogan, he said, would be, "We simply refuse to be treated as a second-class nation...
...money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope of a tie-race...
...University of Havana, plus an annual grant of at least 2% of Cuba's revenues. ¶ A cloud on Cuba's horizon remained the Negro problem. Negro crowds have used political excitement to loot shops, steal liquor. Lately white women have been insulted. Splashed on fences, a slogan has appeared: NEGRO, GET YOUR WHITE WOMAN! WE ARE EQUAL NOW. Immediate result was the organization last week of a new secret society, headed by white Cubans and U. S. residents of Cuba, who took the name Ku Klux Klan Kubano.* ¶ No optimist last week was Cuba...