Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the more knowledgeable Balkanese got sick & tired of wars. It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations-Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania-formed the Balkan Entente. The Entente's simple, appealing slogan: "The Balkans for the Balkanese." At first it attracted little attention. But as the Nazi shadow lengthened over Europe, as Hitler crushed the French-backed Little Entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), as the Great Powers began to bid more strongly for alliances, secret understandings, greater trade, the Balkan Entente became a matter of gravest international concern...
...Japanese Cabinet fell fortnight ago because it failed to fulfill its slogan: "End the China Incident." Japanese civilians have begun to feel that the war will never end. They bitterly call it "nobetsu makunashi"-"continuous performance without lowering the curtain...
Last week a new Cabinet was in power, and because it comprised a few comparatively subtle politicians, no slogan was coined, no promise made. But like seasoned troupers, Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai and his assistants ad-libbed while busily contriving how to end the farce and bring down the curtain...
...Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...
...Doherty was all over the place. He was director in 123 corporations, owned hotels in Florida (Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, Palm Beach's Biltmore, etc.) and Nassau, operated country clubs, staged golf tournaments to publicize his real estate, organized cooking schools to cash in on his slogan "Cook with Gas," sponsored birth day balls for the President and poliomyelitis...