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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Charles C Doyle wrote:
> 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.

Great work, Charlie et al. Here is a citation for "love it or leave
it" applied to the teaching profession in 1890. This might be
considered  a precursor because the full statement includes a
prepositional phrase.

[ref] 1890 August, Ingall's Home Magazine, The Practical Side of Art
by Kate Kauffman, Start Page 413, Quote Page 413, Column 2, J. F.
Ingalls, Lynn, Massachusetts. (Google Books Full View) link [/ref]

https://books.google.com/books?id=vLsaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22ought+to+love%22#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
Now if a woman is free, she has the whole range of activities to
choose from. I have no patience with the girl who teaches school and
says she hates it. She ought to love it, or leave it for some one who
does. There is an exquisite Art in governing forty small persons, in
keeping the school-room attractive with sweetness and beauty, in
filling each little pupil with pride in himself and his surroundings.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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> Subject: Re: "Love It or Leave It" antedating
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>
> 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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