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...capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern Mexico were so insignificant that President Lazaro Cárdenas could tour through the troubled areas all week without danger...
...astonishing show of initiative was staged in spite of the wheezy Ministry. It was due to two enterprising men who bored from within: long, lean, vigorous Sidney L. Bernstein, boss of a chain of 35 Granada theatres, and imaginative Jack Beddington, former Shell Oil publicity man who vitalized British poster and advertising methods by hiring top-notch artists to paint Shell...
...million pounds. At the war's beginning there were 23,650 Schools Savings Groups, carried over from World War I. By last week, in spite of evacuation difficulties, there were nearly 30,000, representing 93% of England's schools. To promote further saving, a children's poster contest was held, which brought in 1,200 designs by youngsters aged 5 to 18. Of 420 put on show in London, some were so good that professional artists slipped in, took notes...
...James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes, ships, soldiers, drew a Churchill-like man with finger pointed at the onlooker-reminiscent of a 1914 Kitchener poster...
Talk In Aargau, Switzerland, a prankster placed a Swiss Army poster warning "Keep Quiet-Idle Talk May Betray the Nation" under the speakers' rostrum of the canton's Legislature. A motion to remove it failed by one vote...