Word: slogans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better off than before the war. Craddock reminded them that in 1938 over 20,000 workers were unemployed in Bradford; now only 600 are out of work, most of these unemployable. His Conservative opponent, a wizened Bradford solicitor named John Windle, concentrated on the theme that Britain was in a mess...
More than 200 Milwaukee merchants had launched a cooperative drive, sparked by the "Milwaukee Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers," a Roman Catholic group which has already plastered city buses and streetcars with 1,200 posters bearing its slogan: Put Christ Back Into Christmas. Starting Dec. 11, some 275 taxicabs will display pictures of the Nativity. Hotel and theater marquees will carry the slogan, as will 160 billboards, automobile stickers and daily radio and TV announcements...
...blue cardboard placards in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt last week were signs announcing: "Profit sharing makes every worker a capitalist." The two-year-old Council of Profit Sharing Industries was holding its annual meeting, and it had plenty of figures to back up its slogan. Starting with 16 companies, the council has grown rapidly; it now represents 155 companies with gross sales of $3.5 billion a year. Last year the 240,000 employees in the companies received about $40 million in profits, or an addition of 5% to 117% to their regular wages...
...theme of this year's drive is "assistance to students all over the world." Chosen because the Council "believes Harvard students have a responsibility to their loss fortunate follows in various corners of the world," the drive slogan is: "They need...