Word: placards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable to the usual fines, imprisonments...
...exhibition of modern open-plumbing. Another day Newark art-lovers trooped to see an exhibit arranged, designed and specially announced by Mr. Dana. In whispers they exclaimed over the beauty of the bowls, the form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted one, read a little note: "Every article in this room was selected at a Newark store, costs no more than...
Harry Canter lived in East Boston. He was a Radical. He was the Communist candidate for Secretary of State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...
...Harry Canter's placard literally accuse Governor Fuller of committing the crime of murder? Last week a Boston jury decided that it did, that Harry Canter had criminally libeled Mr. Fuller, now out of office. The court would hear no evidence whereby Canter sought to interpret or justify the words on his placard. Judge Robert F. Raymond gave this lecture: "This man is of the working class and works eight hours a day or less. I am of the leisure class and work 16 hours a day. . . . The sentence will not be as severe as it would...