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...confirmed in advance of a hearing. . . . The Senator from New Hampshire is welcome to attend the meeting. . . . We'll look over anything he may bring with him." Tom Connally paused, added: "And we have sanitary facilities in the committee room where he can dispose of any bucket of slop he may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Over Flynn | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Styles Bridges jumped to his feet, flushed angrily: "There won't be any bucket of slop unless Flynn's there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Over Flynn | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unintentional Best-Seller | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Harvard's Varsity Swimming team tackles Pennsylvania and Army away this weekend, and, on the basis, of past records, the result should be a slop-aided victory over the Quakers and a closely tonight triumph over the Cadets...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Swimmers Favored to Down Penn, Nose Out Cadets in Weekend Forays | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt, his good friend Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, his many distilling pals. Main points of the report: 1) by re-using containers (now restricted by law) the industry could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle. 3) If needed, the industry could switch 75,000,000 of its 435,000,000-gallon capacity to industrial alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Patriotic Distillers | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

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