EVB2925272: Dr. George Gallup, American public-opinion statistician who created the Gallup Poll. 1956. In the 1930s, he was a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and Director of Research at the Ad Agency, Young and Rubicam. 1935 he formed his own polling company, the American Institute of Public Opinion which created the Gallup Poll / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925296: Harry F. Guggenheim, US ambassador to Cuba, and his wife, Alicia Patterson Field. They were at the Havana American Jockey Club during the races. December 23, 1931. Together they purchased the a newspaper in Hempstead, NYC, which became the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Newsday' in 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925382: Alger Hiss escorted from federal prison by his attorney, wife, son and brother. Nov. 27, 1954. Hiss served three years in Lewisburg Petitionary for perjury charges related to espionage for Soviet Union. His conviction inspired other hunts for Communists within the U.S. Government, particularly the State Department / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925548: Major Roland E. Alley (center), a 14 year Army veteran, charged misconduct as a Korean War POW. August 22, 1955. His lawyer, Col. William T. Logan, warned that he was being singled out as a scapegoat while the Army was under pressure for being 'soft on Communism' by Joseph McCarthy. Convicted, he served 3.5 years in Leavenworth. In Sept. 1973, as a successful surveyor in Maine, he sought to have his case reviewed / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925529: Joe Adonis, was named as one of the U.S. top six criminals by Kefauver Committee in 1950. On May 28, 1951, he was sentenced to 2-3 years in New Jersey state prison. Actor James Percell portrayed Adonis in GANGSTER WARS, 1984. Lewis Van Bergen portrayed Adonis in the 1991 film, BUGSY, 1991 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925541: John D. Archbold, independent oilman and critic of Rockefeller's growing monopoly in the 1870s. He was recruited into Standard Oil in the early 1880s. After the monopoly was broken up by U.S. courts, he became President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from 1911 until his death in 1916 leaving a fortune of million / Bridgeman Images
EVB2930364: Children at a penny arcade, original caption: 'Line of children found in a penny arcade at 1:30 P.M. As many of the schools in Schenectady run on 'half time' they are not necessarily truants.' Schenectady, New York, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, February, 1910, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2930400: Child abuse, from caption: 'Jimmie Chinquanana, 11 Hamilton Street, In dark, inner room of his home, in the rear of their store. He is the ninth child, six of whom are dead. Father abused the wife; drinks. Boy below grade; is bad at times.' New York City, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, September 16, 1913, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images