Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assigned to the Van Waters case was James J. Delaney, whose name popped up in the recent hearing before McDowell. Dr. Van Waters' attorney, Claude B. Cross, accused Delancy of obtaining the name and address of an indentured inmate from the Commissioner's office, and attempting to interview and photograph her under false pretenses. It was an interesting instance of the American' journalistic methods, and for a lot of people, it made the odor of the Hearst tabloid's earlier effort at "exposes" with the Dwyer report more pungent...
...What does this picture mean?" asked the electioneering pamphlet coyly. And under a photograph of a curly-topped baby glowing with health. Britain's Labor Party gave the answer: "The prams of Britain are filled with the bonniest babies in living memory. Britain today gives mothers and babies a better chance of good health than any other country...
...headquarters scurrying to check. In no time their faces were wreathed in happy smiles. Soon afterward faces at Transport House, where Labor holds forth, turned a dull brick red. "I deeply regret the mistake," stammered Party Secretary Morgan Phillips as he withdrew the boomeranging pamphlet amid general guffaws. "The photograph was selected from a collection of 13 supplied by a picture library in response to a request for suitable postwar babies...
...know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
Later, William M. Pinkerton, Director of the University News Office, refused to allow Life Magazine to photograph the Smoker. His reason was that such an article might bring the University unfavorable publicity...