Word: posters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Defendants Moskowitz and Rudikoff were charged with criminal libel. Denied was a motion to bring similar charges against the Manhattan & Bronx Laundry Owners' Association as distributors of the poster...
Business has been none too good for the Eldredge Company Inc., poster printers of Brooklyn. N. Y., but Secretary Elwin Martin Eldredge, pink with pleasure, swore that never in his life had he had such a wonderful Christmas present as the one he received last week...
...choice of subects and the rules of the contest are announced on a poster which has been distributed to all institutions of higher learning. Essays must be submitted to the headquarters of the Foundation in Philadelphia not later than September 15, 1932, and are limited to 5000 words. A number of prominent professors of German at some of the leading American colleges and universities have agreed to serve as judges...
...spur the workers, to make them ashamed of their clumsiness, the Government has conferred upon Stalingrad in mocking poster form "The Order of the Camel for Lazy Work & Breakage.'' Anyone can see that the camel (see cut) is laughing, hee-hawing, mocking clumsy workers...