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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bygone day, a slogan contest would have seemed as absurd as the idea of women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slogans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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