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