Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolution started in the State of Vera Cruz, where General Guadalupe Sanchez, a former friend of President Obregon, commanding 12,000 troops, started an armed movement in support of General de la Huerta. The slogan of the rebels was "Down with imposition," meaning that President Obregon had tried to "impose" General Calles, so-called Radical candidate for the Presidency (TIME, Nov. 19), as next President of Mexico...
Coach Winsor, in outlining the general policy to be followed this year, stressed accuracy of shooting as the most vital element in the work of a team. Taking as his slogan--"everybody a forward", he went on to say that there was no real defence but in attack, and that every man except the goal-guard should have scoring as his primary objective...
...meeting last night the slogan of "Yale can be beaten" swept through the crowd like an electric shock and aroused once again the old triumphant, spirit of "We'll beat Yale" Those who remember last year's march to the field and the determined optimism which surged through the University will not be absent today, for they are seeking a repetition of 1922. Those to whom the week before a Yale game is something new will recognize what the spirit of the University can be when Harvard with its back to the wall fights against Yale...
...Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill, joined with Roosevelt and the Progressives in the fight on Taft in 1912. Then his comrades-in-arms were Gifford Pinchot and Hiram Johnson. In 1916, however, he returned to the Republican fold, and two years later he was elected Senator from Illinois with the slogan: "He is in politics for what he can give, not for what...
...fact of the matter is that all views are apt to be exaggerated, and the foregoing are no exception to the fact. Undoubtedly Europe is well- covered, but the slogan of foreign correspondents seems to be: "What does the American public want ?" These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent...