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...tons of roses to make one pound of attar of rose, synthetic perfumes are usually much cheaper than natural ones. This fact has led perfume-seekers into strange, malodorous places. Said Professor Bogert: "Castor oil is the raw material for certain scents. One of the components of jasmine flower odor, when concentrated, is as fetid and repulsive as the odor of a civet...
...TIME, Aug. 17 ). Last week eggmen were bewildered when a Listerine Tooth Paste advertisement cried: "Eat more eggs. . . . Buy six dozen with that $3 you save." Observers wondered whether eggs and Listerine had come to terms or whether eggs were being shrewdly boosted with tooth paste savings that their odor might be washed away with Listerine...
Fascism in turn gave way to the Vatican last week. Giovanni Giuriati. long in bad odor with the Papacy, resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party, was succeeded by his assistant. Achille Starace...
Detroit re-elected its red-haired Mayor Frank Murphy. Last year idealistic Mayor Murphy almost bankrupted the city with his dole system of unemployment relief, got in bad odor with almost everybody in town except the poor people who helped him last week. Frank Couzens, 29-year-old son of rich and rugged Senator James Couzens, headed the councilmanic ticket, was elected, automatically became president of the city council...
This year Socialist Thomas was running for president of the Borough of Manhattan in municipal election. The Democratic nominee was Samuel Levy, incumbent Tammany hack. Col. Edward C. ("Night Boat") Carrington, president & board chairman of Hudson River Navigation Corp., the Republican nominee, had come into bad odor when it was discovered that he had hired Tammany influence in an attempt to sell one of his piers to the city at an exorbitant price. Deciding that Messrs. Levy and Carrington were both tarred with the same Tammany brush, Republican Wickersham bolted his party, plunked for Socialist Thomas thus...