Word: placarding
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...admittedly, is not going to extend itself to create this atmosphere. It ought to have been surprising to nobody when the Daily Worker called for a pilgrimage of "The Devoted?" to the Federal Courthouse in Foley Square. This particular pilgrimage consisted of somewhere under 500 of the pamphlet passing placard carrying species of Communist. All this comes under the heading of one of the fundamental maxims of the American CP, to wit: "the best way to get a fair trial is to insult the judge...
...genial Santa Claus paraded in front of the Denver Dry Goods Co., carrying a placard: "Please Don't Shop Here. Help Santa Bring a Christmas Pay Raise to Denver Dry Employees." He was a picket for the A.F.L. Retail Clerks Union. Muttered the Rocky Mountain News: "Isn't anything sacred any more...
None. But if his memory is good, he can take heart in the recollection of a certain symbolic cartoon. In the background of this cartoon is a store in construction. A placard on the wooden fence shielding the unfinished innards from public view says: Acme Drugs' New Store Open for Business Soon...
...Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
...Rivera had agreed to rub out the offending phrase and substitute another reading Negocio es negocio ("Business is business"). The painter hastily denied it. Hotel Director Luis Osio y Torres Rivas fumed that Rivera had promised, "on the word of a king," to put something different on Ramirez' placard, and then reneged on the grounds that he was, after all, "no king...