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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barrel No. 2 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Food? | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Follow Your Nose | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Challenge | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Secrets Bared When Grade Curve Uncorks Brew | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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