Word: sloganism
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...informant said that the Smith Ticket would go ahead with its campaign regardless of meetings. He said the Smith slogan would be "Vote Smith, numbers 1-3 on the ballot" and that posters for Smith would include wild Jubilee Weekend promises such as a night swimming party at a nearby beach...
...civil war would be canonized at once. Explained Ecclesia: "In the eyes of the church, martyrdom is obtained only when a life is given in defense of faith or Christian virtue." ¶ In Nashville, a group of leading executives organized a movement called "Businessmen for Religious Action." With the slogan "Worship God More in '54," they set about plans for selling religion like a new product, with film strips, pamphlets, window posters and car tags, speeches to civic clubs and printed inserts for electric and telephone bills...
...Clarence Randall, another of the new internationalists, wrote: "The new corps of business leaders . . . hold in their competent hands the future of free enterprise ... It is their mission ... to keep America strong." Then he accepted the challenge himself by heading a commission aimed at turning "trade, not aid" from slogan into fact...
...sake" is a desirable slogan, why not "science for science's sake"? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces' research grants or a corporation's search for bigger & better laboratory-tested mousetraps, are diffident about performing their experiments for pure research purposes. Sir Edward Appleton, principal of the University of Edinburgh and a Nobel Prizewinner in physics, believes that "science for its own sake" is a slogan to be proud of. His thesis, as quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Science is illuminating as well as fruitful." Says Sir Edward...
...office three years ago, he wooed the isolated backland voters with hillbilly songs (How can a fish live out of water? How can I live without you?) and dazzling promises of roads and electricity. Unlike many another Brazilian political charmer, Juscelino is making his campaign oratory come true. His slogan: "What I start I finish...