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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...P.A.C. had already been officially investigated three times (twice by the FBI, once by a Senate campaign expenditures committee). He deeply resented the Communist label: "You're trying to prejudice the public against us. You're hitting below the belt!" But he welcomed this opportunity to help scotch the "fantastic stories" about P.A.C.'s huge slush funds and lavish spending on behalf of the New Deal. In a five-page financial report and a twelve-page statement, Mr. Hillman told the Congressmen that P.A.C. had spent, thus far, a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Within the Law | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Scottish distilleries have made no whiskey since war began, but in Britain, the Empire, North & South America the thirst for Scotch has grown bigger & bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Low Spirits | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...year Scotch-whiskey reserves will have reached a really serious danger level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Low Spirits | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Doughty, eloquent, imperially-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham sipped a spot of Scotch in Mexico City last week and glanced around at the state of things. Said he to a reporter: "I am willing to admit that there is an opera house here, my dear fellow, but nobody seems in charge of it." Sir Thomas had stepped ambitiously into the same musical scene which had proved almost too much for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, June 5). But unlike Conductor Stokowski, who tried appeasement, Conductor Beecham proposed to deal with the situation in his own sharp, 18th-Century style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart con Carne | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Margery, barmaid to the House of Commons, poured a double Scotch for dour, flushed parliamentary Labor Party Boss Arthur Greenwood. Sipping, he sighed: "That blasted bill! Ehh, what a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sit-Down | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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