Word: sloganism
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...Massachusetts, where less than 6% of the voters turned out for the primaries, the only excitement was on the Democratic side. Joseph B. Ely, twice Governor of Massachusetts and the sole avowed Democratic Presidential rival of Franklin Roosevelt, campaigned with the slogan: "Don't Copy Hitler . . . Reject Roosevelt." He won six of his state's 68 delegates...
...significant something else happened in Wisconsin fortnight ago besides the defeat of Wendell Willkie. Overlooked, until the final returns were in, was the real score of the Democratic primary. In it an anti-Fourth Term slate, campaigning on the slogan "Stop Politics-Win the War," polled 68,000 votes, as against 97,000 for the Term IV ticket...
...slogan has been jobs for the young and security for the old [a guarded endorsement of the Townsend plan helped elect him in 1938] . . . but I'll be damned if I'm going to assure young people about jobs and the old about security when the Government can't provide them...
Many U.S. editors have tried to explain the Bulletin's long, steadily strengthened grip on Philadelphia's readers. Most have given up with a too-easy revision of its slogan to: "Only in Philadelphia Would Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin." The paper fits no familiar pattern for success. Unlike the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it almost never upsets an applecart, seldom even nudges one. It does not go in heavily for foreign correspondence. It is never spectacular...
...largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city's school books filled with British propaganda, discerned a plot afoot to return...