Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown up" to its responsibilities for world leadership, and needs more intellectual cod-liver oil. Publisher Ascoli is prepared to invest in The Reporter $1,500,000 of his own fortune and that of his wife, Marion, daughter of Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck...
Died. Andrew Lawrence Somers, 54, longtime Democratic Representative from New York (since 1925) who helped steer F.D.R.'s gold-devaluation bill through the House (1934); of a liver ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Roman Catholic Somers was one of Zionism's most active champions in Congress, led the fight for a $150 million loan to Israel...
Whenever wealthy Meatpacker Henry Blackman Sell picks up a magazine, he has a great yen to rewrite the stories, rearrange the pictures. Henry Sell is the inventor of Sell's Liver Pate and a dozen other fancy canned meats, but he was once literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, editor of Harper's Bazaar, and editor-in-chief of a string of Butterick Publishing Co. magazines-and he never quite got over it. Now, says Sell, "every time I go through a magazine I'm like an old fire horse. When I hear the bell...
...long 'free enterprise' seemed to mean only that the British employer was free from responsibility for his employees' welfare. Now the state comes to these undernourished men & women, provides their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...
...passed that "Hummon wants this." In just 41 of the 70 days allotted to it, the state's complacent assembly gave crafty, cocky Governor Herman Eugene Talmadge almost everything he wanted. Grumped an editorialist last week in the Hummon-hating Atlanta Journal: "Thank Heaven, I still have my liver and lights." The Atlanta Constitution, somewhat friendlier to Hummon, drew a deep breath and said: "On the whole the legislature did a good...