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C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded the deepest organ tones. When he arose to address a jampacked veto rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, his voice trembled with bitterness. The bill was "dastardly," "dangerously provocative," a "foul brew," he roared. "Our liberties are threatened by reactionary monopoly, driving us on the first long step toward domestic fascism. . . . From here henceforward, if this bill becomes law, the organized labor movement is on the defensive in this country. . . . Let us return to private life the backers of this ugly measure...
Some day, the biochemists may be able to brew a magic concoction that will improve man's intelligence. At Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, three researchers-Drs. Frederick T. Zimmerman, Bessie B. Burgemeister and Tracy J. Putnam-have reported some interesting experiments with children who were given regular feedings of glutamic acid...
...French perfume manufacturers have gone out of business. Another 600 are expected to close shop by the end of the year. Most were fly-by-nights who set up in business during the war and filled fancy flacons with any sweet, synthetic smell-or colored water-that chemists could brew. They cleaned up, selling to the unsophisticated Nazis and later to the G.I.s...
Organized labor wailed in agony. William Green had declared: "Hartley will be classified as one of labor's chief enemies." C.I.O. spokesmen called the measure "a poisonous witches' brew." Old New Dealers in Congress echoed them...
Quaffing a brew on the 5:48 out of Stamford last night, a Gov-major became interested in his neighbor, a tidy character who, between swallows of a rye-and-soda, was drawing invert-ted U-curves on a sheet of paper...