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...Also Cough Syrup. In 1952 the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denounced Hoxsey's claims for his cancer tonic as "false and misleading," ordered the district judge in Dallas to forbid interstate sales and shipment of Hoxsey's bottled wares. (Hoxsey and his lawyers delayed the ban for 15 months.) Said the A.M.A.'s watchdog bureau of investigation: "The whole thing reeks of fraud." The American Cancer Society was even more emphatic: "There is nothing in his . . . medicine which has the slightest effect on cancer, except, according to one investigator, to stimulate its growth slightly...
...well-docketed veteran of legal brawls (two divorce suits, one trial and one accusation of statutory rape), was all tangled up with another lady, though this matter had nothing to do with romance. The plaintiff: his former London landlady, winner of a court order requiring Flynn to cough up $128.80. This, she charged, was the amount she anted up to pay his unpaid bills after he moved out like Flynn. When he got the bad word, Flynn gave a defiant performance. "I shall not pay!" cried he. "I will defend this to the end [even though] it may cost...
Ordinary activities marked 1928-29 as the latest in a series of Prohibition years. Undergraduates of the time will undoubtedly recall Old Golds' frantic "not a cough in a carload" campaign, and the company's resulting painful honesty in reporting that only at Harvard did any other cigarette prove more popular than...
...urban Negroes. Suddenly, sales began to fall off. International investigators discovered that United was hiring Negro rumormongers, who were going into beer halls and factories and spreading the word that Maxes were made by an apartheid (i.e., Jim Crow) company. What was more, said the paid detractors, Maxes caused coughing and tuberculosis. In May 1953, International sent its lawyers to court seeking $8,400,000 damages. In his decision last week, Judge Clayden found all United's propaganda false. International is not an apartheid company, and as for Maxes, there was not a cough in a carload...
Cora Louise Sutherland had always been a thin, wiry type, but in 1951 she developed a hacking cough and lost weight steadily. Each day she taught shorthand to three classes totaling more than 70 pupils at Los Angeles' Van Nuys High School. Students and fellow teachers whispered, but nobody knew what ailed her. For Cora Sutherland was a Christian Scientist. Instead of submitting a chest X ray every three years (as do all but about 100 of LosAngeles' 13,000 teachers), she turned in an affidavit declaring herself free of communicable disease...