[Ads-l] "Love It or Leave It" antedating

[Charles C Doyle]

The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (2012), page 152, gives a slightly earlier quotation (the same quotation) reported in the Chicago Tribune (2 Aug. 1921), which illustrates the jingoistic use of the saying.  The dictionary gives two earlier uses (1901 and 1905-06) in reference to farming as a vocation.


--Charlie

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[External Sender]

Nice work, JL. Here is a citation about the extraterrestrial menace
back in 1921.

Date: August 06, 1921
Newspaper: The Cincinnati Post
Newspaper Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Article: What Other Folk Say
Author:
Quote Page 4, Column ??
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
ALIENS in this country should love it or leave it.—Congressman William
Vaile, Colorado.
[End excerpt]

This was long before Area 51 and the Men in Black. (These comments are
meant to be humorous. All the real trouble was happening on Barsoom
starting in 1912 as recorded by Edgar Rice Burroughs.)

Garson

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 7:54 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> YBQ: Vietnam War
>
> 1940  _Knoxville News-Sentinel
> _
>  (Sept. 29) C-9: While driving through Chattanooga last week we saw a
> sticker on an outline map of the United States, and [sic] contained the
> words, "Love It or Leave It." Good advice, we thought, and wished that a
> number of trouble makers in this country would take the hint.
>
> (Rptd. from the _Clinton [Tenn.] Courier_.)
>
> 1941 Walter Winchell, syn. column in _Augusta [Ga.] Chronicle_ (July 11) 8:
> H. I. Phillips and many other admirers of a billboard slogan in Miami (and
> elsewhere) have testified that it is the best patriotic slogan they have
> ever encountered, to wit: "America - Love It Or Leave It."  From this
> column in the N. Y. Mirror of Sept. 14, 1936: "The U.S.A. would be a better
> place to live in if all the people who didn't like it would leave it - to
> the rest of us who love it!"
>
> 1953 _Cleveland Plain Dealer_ (Mar. 6) 13: Seems to me the government would
> do well to adopt the slogan invented by Cort Middleton of our town:
> "America - Love It Or Leave It!"
>
> 1953  _Springfield [Mass.] Union_ (May 2) 24: State Junior Vice-Commander
> Irving K. Stackpole of Somerville ... noted the reasons for Loyalty Day,
> and emphasized the slogan adopted for treatment of Communists in the United
> States: "America, love It or leave it."
>
> Etc.
>
> JL
>
> --
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