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Stomach Tablets, Shoe-Blacking. Any Frenchman can be a candidate, may nominate himself if necessary. Busy candidates have campaigned by phonograph, hiring henchmen to play their speeches on street corners. As usual in Paris at election time, boxlike billboards surrounded many a tree trunk last week, for the State must supply to each candidate free billboard space. If the candidate, instead of advertising himself, used his space to advertise stomach tablets, shoe-blacking or mineral water, that used to be the candidate's own business-but no longer. Last week the threat of a 10.000-franc fine ($400) kept...
...placed at his disposal two 5-min. periods a week. Seven or eight national radio advertising periods were daily devoting 30 sec. to his use. Hundreds of daily papers were carrying employment box scores on their front pages. Scores of magazines had volunteered to further the cause. Twelve hundred billboard services had done likewise. Donated was $250,000 worth of car card space. Director Byoir, who said his present organization outshone anything he had put together in the War, arranged for "War Against Depression Service Stars'' to be displayed in the windows of everyone who had helped make...
...early billboard-advertising tycoon of California, Walter Varney is advertising-wise. When, as the first airmail contractor in the Pacific Northwest (1925), he found people reluctant to send their letters by plane, Varney advertised. Last year he sold his well-developed system (Salt Lake City-Pasco-Portland-Spokane-Seattle) to United Air Lines, whose transcontinental system it joined at Salt Lake City, turned his attention to the highly competitive San Francisco-Los Angeles route, already operated by three other airlines on a three-hour flying schedule. He put highspeed Lockheed Orions on the run and lopped a full hour from...
...leaders in the struggle, so far unsuccessful, to abolish unsightly advertising will read with joy of the Supreme Court's favorable decision in regard to the Utah billboard law. In upholding the law, which forbids the advertising of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco, on billboards or other public placards, the court has shown a trend away from its former policy of allowing all types of advertising...
...gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough Italian thug. Best shot: Caesar...