Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Longstreth made similar strides among black voters, who felt that Rizzo's slogan "Rizzo Means Business" meant that Rizzo would give them the business. Black wards gave Longstreth 70 per cent of their ballots, the highest Republican percentage since 1932. In Philadelphia, race clearly meant more than party...
...Tuesday by putting together a coalition of blacks, poor whites and suburbanites around the slogan "Keep the Big Boys Honest," the same slogan he used in 1969. He based his appeal on his long time opposition to the interests of the Virginia Power Company, the banks and corrupt politicians. (One of his alternate slogans in 1969 went "Henry Howell Don't Owe Nothing to Nobody.") That this sort of consumer populism could succeed may bode very badly for conservatives. Party lines are breaking up on other issues besides race...
...toughest cop in America," former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo often boasted, a thick finger stabbing the air. Now, as the city's Democratic candidate for mayor, Rizzo puts out much the same message. Billboards and taxis all over the city carry his beefy face and the slogan RIZZO MEANS BUSINESS...
...Trudeau's words, Canada stands to be "more hurt than any other country" by Washington's trade moves. As a result, U.S.-Canadian relations have sunk to what may be their lowest point since Ottawa's Tories won a 1911 election on the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...
Louise Day Hicks, on the other hand, ran her typical low-keyed campaign with the slogan "You know where I stand." This refers to her position in the early 1960s while she was chairman of the Boston School Committee and opposed busing school children to achieve integration...