Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.* The paper had to yank it hastily after discovering that the findings were developed from experiments on dogs. The same day, the Examiner headlined a long-distance interview with the Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen, ex-councilman who had written the wartime dog-pound ordinance. As the Examiner told it, Rasmussen, who was in Des Moines, was "shocked" and "horrified" at the "misuse" of his law. But as Rasmussen told the story, after he hurried to Los Angeles, the Examiner...
...midweek, when friends & foes of vivisection converged on Los Angeles' city council, the Rev. Mr. Rasmussen calmly supported the Navy's experiments and the ordinance stood. Nevertheless, at week's end harried Los Angeles doctors were still getting anonymous threats in the mail. Said a typical one: "You dirty, stinking, filthy beast. I would dearly love to beat you to death, as you would a little animal...