Word: sloganeered
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...threat of Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there. It was the Allies' first slogan: "Il faut en finir"-it must be ended...
Last week the Keeley Institute celebrated its 60th anniversary. Before a small crowd of enthusiastic but sober alumni, Director James Henry Oughton Jr. unveiled a bronze plaque of Founder Leslie E. Keeley, a Civil War surgeon who announced his cure in 1879. With his famed slogan, "Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it," and his "secret" injections of gold chloride, Dr. Keeley amassed a fortune of over $1,000,000. During the 'gos, Keeley clubs flourished all over the U. S., proud Keeley alumni sported shiny gold buttons, preached excitingly confessional sermons to female temperance societies...
...President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters' level, coined the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November...
...rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops to guard against desertion. Passive resistance was reported rife in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, with former anti-Nazis being rounded...
...hotel rooms; their banner distribution of 103,000 Bibles in the year ending this summer brought their total Bibling to 1,580,588. Now the Gideons are looking for new fields. They have Bibled Eastern Airlines, the Clipper ships, are working on American and United Airlines. A new Gideon slogan is: "A Bible in Every Schoolroom in the Nation." Here the going is more chancy. Some States (such as Wisconsin and Washington) expressly forbid Holy Writ in their schools. In others, Gideon Bibling faces restrictions, constitutional or otherwise, against the teaching of religion in schools, or Roman Catholic opposition...