Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English 22 is unfortunately one of those composition courses whose slogan is "you get out of this what you put in." The rudiments of literary creation are not induced into raw Freshmen and Sophomores by a brief judgment scrawled below the mark on the back of a weekly theme, nor even in the tri-weekly 20-minute conference. In these conferences, as in the readings of themes during the lectures hours, the criticism is mostly on the subject matter and plot, and little on the technique of the writer. This is satisfactory for students aiming at earning a living writing...
...dispatch described this very significant meeting in Geneva on March 19, 1933. These men who had seen and felt the horrors of war were not willing to have their descendants endure the same experiences. "Peace, peace at any price, peace by every means, a peace above all" was the slogan of the conference, as expressed by the presiding officer. Thinking people everywhere are echoing these sentiments with fervent hopes...
August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
...Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden. Strangely enough, no monarchical restoration loomed. Chancellor Adolf Hitler had merely gone to the German people under borrowed colors, had won a thundering cataclysmic victory with catchwords as loose as his slogan: "Rebirth or Bolshevism...
...Chancellor, Herr Hitler hopes shortly to provoke an election and go to the country with a matchless slogan: "For Hindenburg and Hitler...