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Ford's discovery of wood alcohol in the bodies of two Boston men confirmed police suspicious that the deaths were caused by poison liquor distributed through a gang of Revere moonshiners. There is still 100 gallons of the alcohol unaccounted for while the number of victims has reached eight. A few weeks 220, a similar situation resulted in over 25 deaths in Atlanta, Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Ask Legal Meds for Advice | 11/13/1951 | See Source »

...today in 1951, so long as our present partnership endures. . . I believe we have a much better than even chance of keeping peace. But the opposite is true, too. If ever, in a mood of impatience with each other, or by allowing distrust and suspicion to spread like poison ivy,* or even perhaps by some single act of folly, we were to allow the friendship and cooperation of our peoples to fade, we might well wake up one morning to find that we had touched off the signal for the third world war to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Closer Companionship | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...This simile may require some explanation in Halifax's country. Poison ivy does not grow wild in Europe, although the Russians have cultivated some poison ivy plants in the famed Nikitsky Botanic Gardens near Yalta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Closer Companionship | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...first man, a Russian named Saradjeff, came with the carillon when it was originally brought from Russia. But he did not take to American life, and thought that someone was trying to poison him when he had to eat House food. After Saradjeff had drunk a bottle of ink and spent a brief period of recuperation in Stillman, he went back to Russia, and for a long time the bells were silent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campbell Picked to Toll of Future Victories on Lowell House Chimes | 11/9/1951 | See Source »

...your McCarthy piece, which, for filthy innuendo, outdoes anything McCarthy's worst enemies have ever accused him of doing . . . You are aware that the Communists' No. 1 target in U.S. is to destroy McCarthy. Perhaps a more clever job than you realize has been done to poison your mind against a man who, if not the perfect champion, fights effectively for a cause that we should all be interested in. This newspaper has strong editorial opinions but confines them to the editorial page and doesn't prostitute its news columns as you have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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