Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucks to introduce the illiterate Gold Coasters to the intricacies of voting. They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside Jamestown prison, where Nkrumah sat mending fish nets in Cell No. 9, demonstrators sang...
...teen-agers of Pleasant Grove, Texas, but they were behaving in a strange way last week. Instead of the usual signs-"Caution-No Brakes" "Don't Laugh Mister. Your Daughter May Be Inside!" -they had daubed their jalopies with the earnest words: "We Want Our Schools." The slogan was cried at special mass meetings, chanted through the streets in impromptu parades. But in spite of all the agitation, the doors of Pleasant Grove's six schools remained firmly closed all week, and no one, from the superintendent on down, seemed to know how to get them open again...
...lower the peak of the arms program and stretch it out well into 1956. Even so, production lagged 5-10% behind the reduced schedules. The chief responsibility for this rests almost wholly on the Truman Administration, which wanted visible civilian prosperity and no civilian hardships to bolster its campaign slogan: "You never had it so good...
Some day, however, says Capp, he will be unable to restrain himself from giving TIME (or LIME, whose slogan is, "If you can't read it-eat it!") the full treatment which is customary in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Says he: "I'm surprised I haven't done a thorough job on it before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves...
...curious habit of turning up in trouble spots all over Africa. Sir Percy's theory, if true, could plausibly explain the fact that Mau Mau agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro into Tanganyika Territory, and that a Mau Mau-like society whose slogan is "Kill the Whites and Christians" is growing in the Belgian Congo. With Asia in flames, the Reds are apparently getting ready to fan the fires of revolt in colonial Africa...