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...years of uninterrupted rule, seemed to be merely against MacBride. "If you don't return me," he told the voters, "Eire faces disaster." But he had little to promise on his own account. "Better a Dev you know than a devil you don't," was the best slogan Fianna members could think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Strangest That Ever... | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...began. Cried one Wallace supporter:"I'm not excited about Truman." Screamed a Trumanite: "Why don'tcha go home?" The meeting was rapidly getting out of hand when Hollywood's Frank Scully, one-legged author of Fun in Bed, onetime candidate for the California assembly (his slogan: "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully"), took the floor. Supporting himself on chrome-plated crutches, he began an oil-on-the-waters speech. "Let's not divide ourselves to the point where we're zero," he said. "We're damn near that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Near Zero | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Admitting under protest a membership of over 3,000, the Student Apathy League dwarfs the more active HLU, HYRC, and HYD. League spokesmen point to their slogan, "Boredom Is a Fundamental Right," and state that they passively oppose everything, including passive resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Move Over,' Mutters Lethargic New Apathy League to Energetic Groups | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...Ruth Foster Froemming, 50, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, filed for mayor of Milwaukee. Her slogan: "Every church your temple, the world your country, and every man your brother." Said she: "I'm not hell bent on winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Gamble | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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