Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last Peace Tomorrow"), a symbol (winner: a whiffletree...
...enough of the U.S.'s 7,813,891 Methodists send enough letters to Government and military leaders, the Council of Bishops hopes to see the Crusade's slogan achieved: "The Peace May Be Won with a Three-Cent Stamp...
...they caused four fires on four successive nights. Some exhibitors write the parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed the contents." Police got their child when the six-year-old appeared at the ticket window with...
...week's end, the slogan had worn very thin. But Seattle was more aware than before of its silent responsibility toward the growing military traffic...
...explanation claims that when rugged, unerudite President Andrew Jackson finished reading the papers designed to dissolve the second United States Bank, he marked them "O.K." (oll korrect). Another explanation points out that when Jackson's henchman, President Martin Van Buren, ran for re-election in 1840, his slogan was OK-the watchcry of his political organization, the Old Kinderhook Club, of New York. Before the election, which William Henry Harrison won, the New Orleans Picayune chortled: "OK. These initials, which in party parlance are understood to mean Oll Korrect, are now used for-Orful Katastrophe...