Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign functionary was stocky, bespectacled Hill Blackett, president of the potent Chicago advertising firm of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Titled Director of Public Relations, his job was to broadcast the Republican message by radio, cinema and billboard...
...Family Doctor. . . ." A State medical inspector, egged on by irate doctors, ordered Barnet Males to get himself and machine off the Boardwalk. Mr. Males dodged around to the entrance of Coney Island's Luna Park, sued to restrain the police from bothering him, intransigently placed this advertisement in Billboard, trade sheet of the amusement business...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin, famed pre-War dancer who has become Chicago's most militant champion of abused animals, sailed for Europe last week. Few days later, to advertise his firm's Ideal Dog Food, President Thomas E. Wilson of meatpacking Wilson & Co. unveiled on Michigan Boulevard a billboard containing six live Boston terriers...
...Camden, N. J., Watchman John Bonitatibus came home to find a new billboard on the lot which his five children used as a playground. Irate John Bonitatibus smashed the billboard with an ax, hung U. S. flags on the wreckage, posted a placard: COMMISSIONERS- WE WANT A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND HERE, NOT BILLBOARDS. Next day, armed with a petition signed by the parents of 200 neighboring moppets, John Bonitatibus marched to City Hall, got the billboard removed...
...operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand, turning to his wife exclaiming: "But nothing ever seems to happen to Huey Long...