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...Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" last month Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt discovered two photographs, pressed them to her breast crying, "I cannot bear to look at them" (TIME, Nov. 20). The photographs were of a woman who had got some "Lash-Lure," an eyebrow & eyelash dye, in her eyes. Last fortnight the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 17 such victims of the latest U. S. beauty fad, one of them facing total blindness. First city in the land to act was New York. Last week its Health Department banned the manufacture, sale...
Investigators had found no victims in the city, but had discovered dangerous dyes in use in beauty parlors, on sale in drug stores. Last week the Health Department had condemned "Lash-Lure" and "Di-Lash," had not yet completed analyses of "Coloura," "Ey-Tec" and "Ey-dolize." From reputable physicians the A. M. A. has received reports of damage done by "Louise Norris." "Loris." "Perma Coleur" and "Larieuse." Like all cosmetics, these dyes are now outside Federal control which would be extended to them if & when Congress passes the proposed new Federal Food & Drugs ("Tugwell") Bill...
...Monday press conferences, which she innovated, comes many a little human interest yarn. Fortnight ago she started another of her countless crusades, this time against poisonous cosmetics. In the Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" she had discovered two photographs of a horribly blinded victim of "Lash Lure." Showing them to the ladies of the Press, she pressed the pictures to her breast and exclaimed: "I cannot bear to look at them...
...these sections. At the Inland Daily Press Association convention in Chicago last week Publisher McCormick and Secretary Edward H. Harris of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association each pointed a fore boding finger at Germany's Press and at the cringing of U. S. Radio under the licensing lash of the Federal Radio Commission. Editor Philip Sidney Hanna of the Chicago Journal of Commerce shocked many a listener by the vehemence with which he cracked down on the New Deal...
Most irked was Delegate Samuel P. ("Waiting Game") McReynolds. To lash the Press he took to the air in a trans-Atlantic broadcast over the Columbia System. Artful, he strove to make out that it was only to the European Press that the U. S. delegation's difficulties seemed ludicrous. Said he: "I want to say that no delegation to an international conference ever met as fierce a barrage of criticism as that which practically all the British and French Press have leveled at us. ... I need not tell an American audience that these stories were as unfounded...