Word: sloganism
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...telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...
Last month Pathfinder, an inexpensive weekly published in Washington, D. C. concluded a contest to supply the Democrats with a campaign slogan for 1932. Democratic Senators Copeland of New York, Sheppard of Texas and Dill of Washington were announced as the judges. More than 100,000 suggestions were submitted. A first prize of $100 was awarded J. J. Stubbs of Robstown, Tex. for the slogan: "Hee! Haw! We're coming back...
...impressed was the Democratic National Committee with "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!" that it took the slogan under its official wing...
...fact that the Beech-Nut Gum advertisement on the back cover was paid for, might well have been guessed by the casual reader. It showed the caricature of a Negro girl alongside the gum-slogan: "Makes the next smoke taste better." Other paid advertisements in the issue, more disrespectful to the product and much funnier, are harder to identify...
...about the coun-try). He visited the Board of Trade where business in the grain pits ceased for four minutes while he was given an ovation. One grain broker helped Governor Ritchie follow Rule No. 4 (Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue) by coining a campaign slogan: "Get Rich with Ritchie...