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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cigars, Pecans. Some of his callers left gifts: a box of Philippine cigars (though Harry Truman does not smoke), a 10-lb. sack of pecans from a Louisiana Congressman (to remind him that there was an overproduction problem in pecans), a pair of engraved brass spurs (from the citizens of Monahans, Tex.). More were looking for presidential favors: Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall (a job for a friend), Philadelphia Realtor Albert Greenfield (a speech date), San Diego Journal Editor John Kennedy (a veterans' hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: And a Pair of Brass Spurs | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Politeness | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Sedative. In Manchester, England, Margaret Allen explained to police why she had murdered Nancy Chadwick: "It would never have happened if I had had a smoke. I was irritable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first, his students understood no English and he could speak not a word of Trukese. For three weeks, teacher and pupils on the onetime Japanese island fortress of Truk groped for a way to talk to each other. Then one day a little girl blurted: "Teacher should not smoke-it does damage in the head." That was the first sign Navy Lieut. William H. O'Brian had that he was getting anywhere with his assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mid-Pacific School | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured cabbage juice, served a glass at a time, five times a day. Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U for Ulcers | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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