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Boston traditionally lives on beans and codfish. But the wails that Massachusetts Congressman John McCormack heard were not for the bean and the cod. Boston voters wanted red meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of Meat | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

After the Archbishop's blessing, fishermen and clergy went about the business of consuming 400 pounds of lobster, ten bushels of steamed clams, 1,000 pounds of boiled codfish and corresponding quantities of beer and wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Blessed | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...hobby is writing letters to the newspapers. I propose to write to you a letter each week, and I take the stand today, for the first day, on the subject of codfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter to the Editor | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...past five days I have consumed approximately $ Ib. of codfish. This codfish, taken with parslev sauce, has greatly enhanced my vigor and has done me more good in these days of blackouts and long hours than all the vitamin pills and fanciful health notions officially recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter to the Editor | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Codfish has made a new man of me, for this reason: that major menace of the modern world, the Scientist, has not yet been able to tackle the fish of the sea and feed them up according to his formulae instead of letting them live according to the rules of Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter to the Editor | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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