Word: posters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ELIOT RATSKELLER...Smells of fresh paint, and rather high-priced, but there is always a merry, well-dressed late-night crowd, and it has that old railway poster atmosphere. Your credit is good there, and if you come around real late you can have the left overs that won't keep till the next night, gratis. Watch the big bartender with the Hitler moustache do his stuff...
...Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with high boots. Before Mr. Bullitt divorced her in 1930, she encouraged him to expose the foibles of his class in It's Not Done, a slashing novel in which scandalized Philadelphians thought they recognized Financier Stotes-bury. Merchant Wanamaker and Sateve-poster Curtis, all deftly mocked...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...
...Valentine Kataev- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). ''And it is not for nothing that Gorky constantly repeats. Write the history of factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last...
Gossips said that President Roosevelt was suffering from sinus trouble, but the President described the ailment which confined him to his four-poster bed for two days last week as "sniffles." Attired in striped flannel pajamas and an old white sweater, the President played with his many varieties of U. S. stamps and his three varieties of U. S. dollars: world, R.F.C.-gold and commodity-value...