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...past six months. This was done in spite of the fact that during the past 40 years the pure food & drug laws, the Federal Trade Commission, the American Medical Association have forced the company to water down its once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next...
...spite of "da cops," Widener should purchase this copy of Esquire, bind it in Morocco, label it in letters of rare gold and slow it away in come ultra-exclusive stack for future generations to stare at in awe-this article; not the purty pictures hat go with...
...citizens generally were willing to accept much positive action-as they did in the destroyer-bases deal-but only if it bore the negative label "Defense." But the public did not yet admit that the struggle with Hitler on which the U. S. is to spend $6,500,000,000 in fiscal '41 was reality. To most people it was still a phony struggle, as year ago the war to Britons was a phony...
...scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier, 39, has hitherto rusticated in Hampshire, England, now finds Virginia more suited for the cultivation of prose, verse and prize-winning flowers. But the label "whimsy" withers within ten feet of his pungent, multifoliate fancies...
Harvard '12 engaged in Civil War Monday night when Samuel H. Cross, Professor of Slavic, labelled his classmate Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring Ambassador to Britain, as "disingenuous." Justification for the label was that "if we admit, as Mr. Kennedy does, that a British victory is in our interest, the only logical conclusion is that we should assure it if necessary by force of arms...