Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance for Progress, so far it has been more a slogan than a policy. The nations and governments of Latin America are vastly disparate, yet many still seem all too ready to consider the Alianza an excuse to sit back and let the U.S. foot the bill for their own shortcomings. In fact, in those Latin American nations where U.S. policy has been successful, it has been due as much to capable on-the-scene ambassadors as to the Washington-directed programs and policymakers...
...Time. It was the Farm Bureau, biggest of the U.S. farm organizations with 1,628,295 families, that was chiefly responsible for defeating the Administration's program of stringent controls last May with the slogan, "Freedom v. Freeman." Buoyed by its victory in the referendum and bulging with 20,790 new member families since then, the bureau still is vigorously pressing its demands for a complete Government retreat from the farm field...
...limit on campaign expenditures, many a candidate in last week's general elections simply followed an old practice of having contributions funneled through "research institutes." Since candidates were restricted to three posters each (v. the previous limit of 12,000), many "accidentally" dropped cards, complete with picture and slogan, in telephone booths, department stores, bars and buses. On rainy days, one aspirant even had his campaign workers approach commuters and hand out armloads of umbrellas; when they were opened, the candidate's name spread out in huge characters painted on the umbrella surface...
...American politics in the age of Andrew Jackson. In a single Luzon province, 114 "political" murders took place this year. In last week's national and municipal elections, the Philippines moved on from the age of Jackson to the age of Roosevelt - at least on the slogan level. President Diosdado Macapagal, 53, us ing "New Era" instead of "New Deal" and calling for the support of "the common man," led his Liberal Party against the opposition Nacionalistas, supported by most businessmen and landowners...
Mussolini and Diem owe the slogan to its originator, the Royalist La Rochejaquelin, who shouted the same enjoinder-in French-to his Catholic followers during the Wars of the Vendee (1793), a vain counterrevolution against anticlerical republican revolutionaries...