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...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...class that graduated into the depression, was preceded by three old jallopies, and was clad in white dusters, caps, and driving goggles, while '33 was rigged out on masse as "fairies," with dunce caps, balloons, wings and a placard that characterized it as "The Grover Boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Come On, Governor, Boys Will Be Boys! | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Approximately two-thirds of the class voted in the surprise referendum, which was heralded only by a placard in the Union last night and announcements in this morning's CRIMSON. Twenty ballots were invalidated since they were unsigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VOTE DOWN CLASS ELECTIONS IN REFERENDUM | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...poster appeared on the bulletin boards Tuesday, which made a vicious attack on outstanding Harvard professors and implied crude anti-semitism, with attempted similarity to the cheap vaudeville of DER STUERMER. Those who have seen the reproductions in a recent issue of LIFE magazine will recognize in this placard a poor exhibition of intolerance and bigotry which is characteristic of all fascist literature in this country. By making illegal use of the bulletin boards for an unsigned poster, the authors themselves acknowledge that Harvard rejects such ill-mannered action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

Scott Lucas, freshman Democrat from Illinois, was another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters to telegraph to Senators. "I'm tired of pressure," snorted Shipstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 93 Votes | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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