Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield, 88, British economist, pioneer Fabian socialist, onetime Colonial Secretary (1929-31); in Liphook, England. He invented the most uninspiring political slogan of an era-"inevitability of gradualness"-and gave it to the Fabian Society, the gleam-in-the-eye which fathered the British Labor Party. His late wife Beatrice was coauthor with her husband of dozens of dogged, thorough, worthy, dull books and pamphlets. Their crowning work was the 1,174-page Soviet Communism: a New Civilization, which was the most detailed study of the Soviet Government in English, and which completely missed the point...
...heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
...miners had acted within an hour after the Senate voted the bill into law over the President's veto. At the grimy tipples from Pennsylvania to Alabama, they threw down their tools and stalked off the job, cursing the Congress. They had a slogan: "If they want coal, let the Senators...
...Edmonton Journal was put out: "Just why steak should be a typical Alberta food is not explained. . . . Grilled prairie chicken or buffalo stew . . . would have lent itself to seductive advertising." But Dan Campbell, the Social Crediters' pressagent, liked it fine. He got ready to beguile tourists with the slogan: "Alberta is the only place in the world where you can get a thousand-dollar steak for one dollar...
Perhaps the only genuinely popular slogan that went through Germany immediately after the capitulation was Schluss mit der Soldatenspielerei (No more of this soldier business...