Word: stickers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan organization called "the Committee for Christian Action" has compiled "Christian Indexes," now in circulation, which list "Christian" merchants in various neighborhoods. Reads one Index: "Christ Himself sponsored this little leaflet for your protection." Upon non-Christian shops, anti-Semitic stickers appear: BY BUYING HERE YOU HELP THE COMMUNISM (see cut). (Turned upside down, the head on the sticker resembles a plug-ugly "Red" in a Russian...
Irked by his failure to produce a sticker, the Congressman whipped out a statement: "I do not believe he is the fighting type. ... I am only too sorry I did not discover this weakness in him before he was named a candidate. . . ." Academy officials told him Trivers had not complained to them...
Andover, in spite of six substitutions, played errorless ball, while the Freshmen, with one substitution, garnered three errors. Heavy sticker Peters, Andover second baseman, led the batting with three out of four; Bill Wood, Yardling shortstop, collected two for three, and Charlie Lutz, first sacker, took long distance honors with a triple in the fifth. AB R H PO A E McPherson, cf 4 0 0 0 1 1 Lutz, 1b 5 1 2 8 0 0 Fulton, c 5 0 0 8 0 1 Macdonald, rf 2 0 1 2 0 0 Wood...
...slash at paintings on display. Last week in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts found that 23 canvases stored in the cellar had been ripped by a slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, by Academy Founder Charles Willson Peale; had hacked at the 22 other paintings and finally hauled...
...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...