Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama for the Panamanians" is the slogan on which President Arias was elected, with the help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets...
...sentiments are sung by a character called Gaston, whose recorded outbursts are sponsored by Chateau Martin wine. Few jingles have made such an impact on the U. S. Variations on Gaston's theme are popular in nightclubs, his antics have formed the background of several skits, and his slogan "I am NUTS about the good old Oo Ess Ay" is incessantly echoed among the nation's small...
America follows suit once a year. Christmas is our slogan, and it does pretty well. You see stories in the newspapers about the heavy traffic on the highways and railroads--people leaving the city to go home, others coming in from faraway places. Today and tomorrow comes Harvard's mass migration...
...minority with an exalted, holier-than-thou opinion of itself, as implied by use of the slogan "Crusade," is very apt to be worse than nonproductive. Remember the Prohibition Crusade...
...called Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, wows his audience with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...