Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew it, 31-year-old Ralph Flanagan was the first bandleader to become a rage on records without ever showing his face to his public...
...University where he edited the college newspaper, The Kaimin (meaning "message" in Salish Indian). In 1917, he solemnly refused to sign a, student resolution endorsing Woodrow Wilson's war effort-at least not until Wilson had made it clear how he was going to conduct the war. The label "pacifist" was pinned on him. But he was one of the first on the campus to volunteer, and he went to France with the 18th Engineers Railway Regiment...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...poisoning. Investigation showed that one teaspoonful of the fluid* taken by mouth, or the fumes from one cupful breathed in a poorly ventilated room, could cause death. It is especially dangerous to people who have been drinking. The doctors' recommendation: manufacturers of cleaning fluids containing carbon tetrachloride should label it poisonous, attach the usual skull & crossbones and explain the conditions under which it is most dangerous...