Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...caption reads, "Congratulations, old man, now you've got your own Porfirio Diaz," which refers to the ... dictator who succeeded himself in Mexican elections for 30 years until he was finally removed by the 1911 revolution...
...front page of Moscow's Pravda appeared a photograph of two blandly smiling statesmen. The caption: "Comrade V. M. Molotov and Mr. A. Hitler in the new Reich Chancellery...
...reason for writing is a photograph of Mr. Wendell L. Willkie, which is included in the number of Aug. 26. It is astounding that any magazine could print such an obviously retouched and apparently intentionally distorted photograph as a true likeness of anyone. Furthermore, the misleading caption in which you attempt to brand Mr. Willkie an exponent of Hitler is an entirely unjustified attack on personal character...
Hitler was a favorite subject; 36 pictures of him made up a "Hitler Corner." Sylvia Asprey, 12, showed Hitler on a clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). 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...
Meanwhile, London newsmen grew suspicious. There a similar photo, slightly different, ran as an exclusive picture in the Daily Sketch. Said Sketch's caption: "Taken at the height of battle [it] shows . . . five of the German planes crashing in flames. . . . Trails of smoke tell the tale." Newsmen went around to Planet's office, demanded the original print, rubbed wet fingers over it. Three of the planes, most of the smoke disappeared. There remained a dark spot which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke...