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...Hearst himself has been accused of using his papers to exert improper influence upon the foreign relations of the U. S. In February, President Coolidge made a speech criticizing but not naming certain newspapers. The speech was taken to be a rebuke to Mr. Hearst for having published fake Mexican "documents."' Last week the Hearst editorial had the effrontery to link that same Coolidge speech with Britten Anglophobia, implying that both were directed at the New York Times, New York World, Baltimore...
Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
...effigy; the sad and funny little man subsided mournfully into smoking grease. The flames leaped from figure to figure, stroking their oily faces with a hot and magic hand. Before long, all the ugly famous criminals, the sly and silent actresses, the solemn, musty presidents and the fake policemen stationed to fool visitors-all these people with their stiff faces and their blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape destruction, became puddles or streams of burning wax. Lindbergh looked brave no longer, a murderer lowered the frail knife...
Later in the week, there were varying comments on this feast of fake fatalities and free-for-all ballyhoo. Some criticised the apparent foolishness of the press. Others gave great praise to Press-agent Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably...
...available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...