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...Well, spivs,' the speaker began, 'we all know this society,' pointing at the placard labeled British League of ex-Servicemen, 'is a sham. We are Fascists and we're proud of it. I love Mosley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I Love Mosley | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Pasadena, Calif., 33 white-haired members of the W.C.T.U., led by one Mrs. Jessie Lee Cowie, 87, marched right into the town's bars with a hymn-singing, placard-waving appeal to the "better natures" .of drinkers. The customers paid little heed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...quit since then (one to join the British Navy), but the other two, young Con Cusack and Paddo Young, had stuck it out. Every day now for eight years, with other pickets sent by the union, they had tramped up & down, from 10 a.m. to closing, carrying their battered placard: "Strike On at Downey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Union & Jim Downey | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Goodbye, good luck and please remember our 15 wives," proclaimed the placard. Printed in Russian and held aloft at the London airport by five suppliant Britons, it left the 20 departing members of the Soviet good will mission to Britain as puzzled as the blizzard of questions they had faced at a press conference two days before. "The great interest that is being shown by the British press rather surprises us," said Vasily V. Kuznetsov, the mission's leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin v. Cupid | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...joined the Army, entertained in camps. After the war he took the name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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