Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carry on" as a slogan has so worked itself into the minds of the British that they cannot even forget it in peace times. After five months in which to think out a solution to the coal strike, miners, operators and government officials are still doing their bit to make matters a little more tense. With the advent of winter, and what is likely to be a serious crisis, the success of their prolonged campaign approaches realization...
...truths notwithstanding their repuguance to the dictates of reason and to the teachings of experience. "Government must rest on the consert of the governed." "Democracy is government by the whole people." "The cure for the ills of a democracy is more democracy." (What a strange, article of faith that slogan embodies' Were I to say that the remedy for the evils of misgovernment is more misgovernment I should be saying something just as rational, but I should be giving you a poor opinion of my intelligence.) "Ours must be a government of laws, net of men." "The executive and legislative...
...Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King (TiME, July 5) who was at the time Premier. Not for many a year has a Governor General of Canada refused to heed such "advice" from a Premier, and accordingly the Liberals were able to ruffle the pride of Canadians by the slogan: "Is Canada a (locally autonomous) Dominion, or a (subservient) Crown Colony...
...miners and Laborites who have not seldom hanged "Murderer Churchill" in effigy, proved so receptive to the new compromise that a slogan ran through the coal fields last week: "Churchill will fix it!" The owners, slow to relax their demands, nevertheless announced that "in deference to Mr. Churchill" they would take his proposals under intensive advisement. Finally it was apparent to all that Premier Baldwin displayed great shrewdness in letting "Winnie" turn the Cabinet's somersault...
...Root thought for a moment? Was it quite fair to turn the casual phrase of the most ingenuous and beloved of dead Democrats into a slogan for a Republican candidate? . . . "and replied, 'Senator Wadsworth of New York'. ... I think that is a general opinion among those who know best...