Word: sloganism
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...Valera has achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week he took no occasion to sound off one way or another on the bombings. He is the last to forget the old Sinn Fein slogan: "England's crisis is Ireland's opportunity...
Last week Mr. Collins got a job - assistant to General Manager Julius Ochs Adler of the New York Times, with advertising and promotion as his province. Wags wondered whether the Times's famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might be changed to "It's Smart to be Newsy.'' Last week Mr. Howard also got a new job - executive vice president of R. H. Macy & Co., the position once held by Kenneth Collins...
Fifteen years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
...Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred Thousand organizers who wanted to adopt the slogan: "Chamberlain Must...
Born. To C. (for Clarence) Elmer Taylor, 44, insurance broker and American Legionnaire, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Chicago. When Elmer Taylor got lost in a parade during the Legion's 1933 Chicago convention, the gathering took as its slogan, watchword, wisecrack and talisman the cry: "Where's Elmer?" Since then Legionnaires often address each other as Elmer. Name of the Taylors' son: Robert Frank...