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...Delhi a tall Indian dressed in pajamas and supposedly representing the Viceroy paraded through the streets leading a string of donkeys, each of which bore a placard with the name of an Indian member of the Viceroy's Council. Man & asses were arrested, and the court debated whether animals as well as man had violated rules banning parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Time is Now | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Efligies were hung on the balcony by the "dirty thirty" as well as a placard placed in the lobby under the name of the Purity Leaguers, stating "Are you prepared to meet your Maker? Well, you can't meet Him here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age-old Moral Issue Starts Struggle in Radcliffe Dorm | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Request. In a Chicago restaurant appeared a placard: "Kindly report persons who thoughtlessly put sugar bowls into their pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...long queue of determined-looking women clumped up & down before a Detroit Federal housing project. Their placard read: "We want White Neighbors." Some 500 of their men gathered purposefully on the east side of Ryan Rd., the border line between white & black neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of a Street | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...What Can We Do About This?" screamed a big placard in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. It meant Los Angeles' own looks and lack of livability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dream City | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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