Word: sloganeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valera has achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week he took no occasion to sound off one way or another on the bombings. He is the last to forget the old Sinn Fein slogan: "England's crisis is Ireland's opportunity...
Fifteen years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
...Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred Thousand organizers who wanted to adopt the slogan: "Chamberlain Must...
Born. To C. (for Clarence) Elmer Taylor, 44, insurance broker and American Legionnaire, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Chicago. When Elmer Taylor got lost in a parade during the Legion's 1933 Chicago convention, the gathering took as its slogan, watchword, wisecrack and talisman the cry: "Where's Elmer?" Since then Legionnaires often address each other as Elmer. Name of the Taylors' son: Robert Frank...
...solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth) is the perpetual slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...