Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper lights the way of freedom," was the slogan of National Newspaper Week, celebrated in 5,000 U.S. towns and cities. Most telling of many thousand expressions of the idea: the Phoenix Arizona Republic (circ.: 35,823) appeared with its first and second pages blank except for a small box containing the words: ". . . This is all the news you would be able to read if the daily newspaper were not uncensored, unfettered, in free America...
Even supporters of Croatia's quisling Premier, Ante Pavelitch, were deserting to the Chetniks. On the rocks by Croatia's roadsides, on the bricks of Croatian walls, white paint smeared out the Pavelitch slogan: "Jivilo Hrvatska Ustashi!" (Hail Croatia's Revolutionists!). To Nazi-inspired rumors that Dr. Vladimir Matchek, imprisoned leader of Croatia's once-powerful Peasant Party, had been offered the job of Premier to replace Pavelitch, Croats in Ankara cried...
...President still gives Kelly great credit for his Third Term reelection. Kelly was the only boss who had his heart in the campaign. When he invented the slogan "Roosevelt and Humanity." he meant it. And he was the one who pounded the table last October, told the President brusquely to call off the so-called "defense inspection tours"; brushed aside Hopkins (who thought the election was in the bag) and told the President he was licked unless he fought...
Next day many of the same ladies appeared in Trafalgar Square for a more down-to-earth cause. Under the slogan BOMBS SHOW NO SEX BIAS they called on the Government to make compensation rates for war-injured civilians equal for men and women (instead of averaging 28 shillings per week for women...
...Music has often carried political meanings. When the Marseillaise was banned in Austria in 1840, Robert Schumann deftly quoted from it in his Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...