Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warning the President and his advisers not to be fooled by "funny facts and figures," the Forum printed a Resettlement Administration publicity photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even...
...Republican New York Herald Tribune swung into action on the story, ordered its Washington Bureau to dig in the RA publicity files for confirmation. Next day the Herald Tribune frontpaged an article about three other Rothstein "drought pictures," in at least two of which the same steer's skull had apparently been used for dramatic effect. One print was labeled "Drought Victim," giving the distinct impression that the steer had just been laid low by the weather. Another was located in "the Bad Lands" which no farmer in his right mind would attempt to cultivate...
Confronted with such publicity, RA's 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...
...left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain tumor. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland opened her skull, cut out the right cerebral hemisphere-i.e., half her brain...
...famed fistfighting priest who for 24 years (1907-31) crusaded against waterfront gangs (Hudson Dusters, Tin Can Athletic Club, Pig Alley Sports, Vinegar Hill Gang) with prayer-book and an 8-in. rubber hose vhich, he said, "drops 'em just as quick but doesn't crack the skull"; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In his Catholic Seamen's Mission hung a bold sign: "If you want to know who's boss START SOMETHING...