Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians, the report had another sharp point. Its flat comparisons with the Truman Administration were a resounding reply to the old Democratic slogan of 1952: "Don't let them take it away." Clearly, the Administration believed that it had found a positive, workable G.O.P. economic philosophy, and fully intended to take the offensive with it in the fall elections...
This election year, Doug McKay is engaged in a basic political struggle with the shade of Harold Ickes and his heirs. The issue: federal management of resources v. the Eisenhower slogan of partnership between Government and business. In the West, this conflict is much sharper than in the rest of the U.S. The West grew up under the Federal Government's wing. McKay's opponents are betting that it wants to stay there. Eisenhower, McKay & Co. think they see signs that the West, even on such issues as who develops water power, is ready to emerge from Washington...
...with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured a donkey kicking "cattlemen who voted for Ike." He cashed in on the publicity, legally changed his name from James Pinckney to Cowboy Pink Williams, and campaigned against veteran (six terms) Lieutenant Governor James Berry with the slogan: "It's Berry canning time...
Roads, Docks, Deaths. With ample capital and an assured market, the newly formed Iron Ore Co. of Canada pulled out all the stops to get Ungava into production. I.O.C. President Humphrey coined the slogan "Iron Ore by '54" and geared operations to meet it. A 17-plane airlift flying as many as 96 flights a day began lugging men and freight into the Ungava wilderness to lay out town sites, build power plants and dig ore pits. At a cost of more than 20 lives, a 357-mile private railroad was pushed across rivers and through mountains from Seven...
Magsaysay, rightly seeing in it a direct challenge to his authority and his policy, banned use of the slogan in the future...