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...Latest." Department stores, with heavy Christmas advertising scheduled for the struck papers, reported a sharp drop in telephone and mail-order sales, but no noticeable slackening in the number of customers coming into the stores. One store filled its window with a big placard: "These Ads Would Have Been in the Sunday Times." Many stores took to radio and TV to sell their wares. WCBS reported 17 new ad accounts, and WOR said that "our sales department is going frantic turning down money." All stations stepped up their news broadcasts as well as ads. NBC put sandwich...
...audience had been waiting thirty minutes for this spiel but there was only one sign of restlessness. Under a placard reading "How to STOP Worrying," a tall youth chewed hungrily on both his hands. MacKinnon's talk consisted of "humorous" little stories to warm up the crowd and illustrate the "handling" of people. One of these anecdotes concerned some preposterous lie about food packaging that MacKinnon had told his first grocery store customer; another showed how a father had convinced his on to kill a beloved net turtle by applying one of the rules taught by the course. Audience response...
...somehow on their side. Alben Barkley was really on everybody's side: he was Mr. Democrat, the personification of a kind of comradeship that binds together the dissident bundles in the Democratic Party. There was a half-truth, but a deep half-truth, in the campaign placard: "North, South, East, West, all agree Barkley best." All would have agreed, at that point, that Barkley was second best...
...Band struck up a few marches until William Dawes could arrive. With a clattering of hoofs and a hail of laughter, he finally appeared, followed by a particularly red-faced Redcoat. In the midst of the resulting confusion, the placard-bearers' chieftan, Roy Gootenberg, was protesting vigorously the police's attempt to remove his signs. "Freedom of speech...freedom of opinion...freedom of speech..."plus a long list of Supreme Court cases was all that this reporter could hear above the din of William Dawes' revisitation. The placard wavers rushed out into Garden Street still citing court decisions, raised their...
Meanwhile, under the shade of an historic tree, an old man-the proud bearer of a large Taft button-argued with a student over the ethics of waving a placard on such a sober occasion. "What's wrong with a placard?" the student asked, "Taft men are distributing political handouts." The old man pondered this, then tentatively suggested "That's communist tactics." He pondered a little longer, then, perhaps aroused by his own perception, suddenly began screaming "Communist tactics, Communist." Wilting fast, the student took up his placard and fled...