No room for rumors
Sponsor-issued poster: a stern Uncle Sam in a star-spangled hat points straight at the viewer above the headline 'no room for RUMORS'. The pointing figure of national authority is used to attach the warning to a distiller's name; the threat is implied by the stare and the command, with no consequence shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- House of Seagram (Seagram-Distillers Corp., N.Y.C.), artist Ess-Ar-Gee
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
House of Seagram (Seagram-Distillers Corp.). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1415 (NAID 515079).
Text on the object
no room for RUMORS THIS POSTER IS PUBLISHED BY THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM AS PART OF ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL VICTORY EFFORT [signature:] ESS-AR-GEE [imprint:] SEAGRAM--DISTILLERS CORP., N.Y.C. 9
