Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took orders. Acosta was the best flyer aboard." From Acosta in New York: "If I had anything to say to Tony I'd say it to his face." According to the New York Evening Graphic, Acosta also said: "So far as Anthony Fokker and his book are concerned, he can go to hell...
...scene in, which his faithlessness is apparently proven, she leaves him, runs to the arms of still another doctor. The scene in the operating theatre comes when Baxter, with his wife as one of the attendant nurses, operates on her lover. The situation is farfetched; not so the graphic hospital scenes...
...largest annual circulation-holder in the U. S.* Macfadden announced last week that Liberty's editorial policy would be continued unchanged. Just what the terms of the sale were was not learned, but this much was known: The Detroit Daily, a tabloid resembling New York's Evening Graphic, was taken by Publishers Patterson & McCormick from Mr. Macfadden in the nature of a trade. Its name will be changed to the Detroit Daily Mirror. It will be edited by City Editor Frank Carson of the New York Daily News...
...Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...
...libel case arose out of the introduction in 1927 of a legislative bill to revoke the Society's charter. One of the provisions in New York's penal laws allows the Society to collect 50% of the fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged...