Word: posters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above the microphone hung a large poster picture of Alvaro Obregon, and upon the further wall a photograph of his widow, children. Everyone in the room smoked incessantly, the audience, the reporters, the nine jurymen and the judge. For what was being broadcast was the trial of José de Leon Toral and the nun, who is charged with being his "intellectual accomplice," Madre Concepci...
...readers of the New York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised...
City Editor: I'll put Joe on the murder. Get on this. The New York World wants a thousand words on the excitement here about that poster cartoon...
...hours after the arrival of the Pennsylvania delegation, a wag altered the "b" in "but" on the poster and scratched out two letters of the big sign below. The change was slight, but now the signs posed one of the most intimate questions of the convention: "Who put Hoover OVER...
Snowball Jackson, the dusky manager of the Tigers, claims a record for his nine which puts the averages of any major league outfit to shame. According to the lurid yellow poster which he is circulating to drum up publicity for the contest, his charges have won four, out of three starts. Actual records, however, differ slightly from his claims, giving the Tigers five wins and two defeats...