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Said Dr. Magnuson: "I will name the men I suspect because I want to find out whether each man is a skunk or what the circumstances are." A.M.A. trustees, he added, have promised cooperation; they had just signed an editorial in the A.M.A.'s Journal denouncing physicians who take rebates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Skunk Chaser | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Skunk. Sherm was no stranger to the labor board. Back in 1937, nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Head Kitchenman Manuel Avala testified that, after he had joined the union, Billingsley had him shadowed, hissed at him one day: "You are the skunk of the earth." Modest Manuel added: "I can't tell any of the other things he said. Only on the Bowery is such language used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...picture of the garment district so snarlingly unpleasant that his publishers for a time refused to let them be reprinted, fearing that they helped spread antiSemitism. In a collection of short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle Dixie, he boiled a whole gallery of cheap-flash characters in skunk oil. Weidman's people were not always well drawn, but they were properly quartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tiger Scratches | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Scallions and skunk cabbage to whoever reviewed The Macomber Affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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