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...lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato notices he saw another poster: "Workers Wanted for the Uranium Fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-NIners | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...commission also decided to fight in the French cantonal elections (March 20 and 27) on a peace platform. Hundreds of thousands of election posters have been shipped out, to be plastered on walls all over France. Say the posters: "Marshall-ized France has been dragged into a costly, dangerous and criminal policy of preparation for war." And, in the poster's largest lettering: "VOTE FOR PEACE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Treasonable Intentions | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Mike Siner led in conspicuousness of poster area by suspending his name in foot square letters from the ceiling of the Union lobby and writing his name with green paint on the snow outside. "Colonel" Bill Warner issued a directive ordering "all personnel to abstain from study and classes on the weekend in question," promising "severe reprimands to the College Administration if they interfered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex and Beer Used to Garner Votes | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Freshman politicians started as early as 6:30 a.m. yesterday to get the jump on their fellow Jubilee Committee candidates and grab the best available poster space in the Union lobby. By mid-morning walls were covered with blatant advertisements picturing boisterous candidates and buxom models...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Campaign Gets Under Way | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...Union Committee, recalling last year's near election of a fictitious freshman, Frederick B. Applegate '51, merely on the strength of distinctive campaign posters, now meets every evening at 7 p.m. to judge each poster and campaign stunt before its public appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Campaign Gets Under Way | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

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