Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Artists Professional League, long chafing at inroads of foreign artists on their trade, offered a $10 prize for a patriotic U. S. art slogan. Last week Commercial Artist Valentine Sandberg won the $10 but the League made a few changes. He had put his clarion call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists...
Governor Ritchie of Maryland rested his case on his slogan: "Win With Ritchie...
...Paul-Boncour, Minister of War, had his say. "The Hoover plan is eminently clear, direct and simple," he purred. "It is perhaps too simple, Messieurs. . . . My Government still maintains its policy of first obtaining guarantees that the security of France will not be threatened" [i. e. the old French slogan: "Security before Disarmament...
...Party managers grew nervous about this slogan when it was pointed out to them that only a slight change was necessary to make it ''Depression with Hoover...
...soon as the preternatural stupidity of Hicks becomes apparent, his committeemen perceive the necessity of hiring someone to promote his candidacy and to disguise his most obvious disqualifications. They find a campaign manager named Hal Blake (Warren William ) lodged in an alimony jail. "Hicks from the sticks" is the slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions by saying, "Yes&$151;and again, no." The main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into a mountain cabin and wins...