Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram which he said was from Harry Bridges, warning that an Atlantic strike would only delay matters. "Fake! Boo!" yelled the men. "We want Curran!" Insurgent Curran had been barred admission, was waiting outside. Called in, he won a unanimous strike vote, declared that every U. S. Atlantic port would be tied up. In the next two days 91 ships were strike bound in Atlantic harbors...
...world's heavyweight title, is kept awake all night by her tap dancing in the room above. He loses the fight, earns another crack at the title, wins it. When neither he nor Mabel proves a box-office draw, a press agent gives them glamor by a fake romance. This evokes wearisome bickering, which suddenly ends when hungry Cain surprises Mabel cooking a pork chop. They take to meeting surreptitiously in the public library, kissing behind a book on ichthyology. This state of affairs is ruptured by the machinations of the press agent. Before the fadeout Cain goes berserk...
...American people will not permit their attention to be diverted from real issues to fake issues which no patriotic, honorable, decent citizen would purposely inject into American affairs...
Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...
...Photographic Chief Edwin Locke quickly admitted that "one view of the skull was taken on alkali ground and then moved about ten feet onto grassy ground that shows in the first picture and rephotographed there. I can't see how that can be called a fake." Chief Locke added that the pictures were made in Pennington County, S. Dak. last...