Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record of dealings with the Miscellaneous, but he had a bookful of canceled checks to prove...
...conduct during the judge's ten years on the bench. Samples: taking bribes; quashing indictments against 13 Teamster goons accused of dynamiting and arson (TIME, Dec. 30); illegally "retiring" hundreds of felony cases, putting the defendants in his power by letting them out of jail but keeping them subject to prosecution. By overwhelming votes, the house adopted 24 of the 25 counts, concluded that "no Tennessean should be forced to [stand trial] before such a judge." Next step: an impeachment trial in the Senate...
...teaching can explain the meaning of the Seventh Commandment without reference to sex.'' he exploded. "You might as well try to explain about fishing without using the word fish." When the board complained that he was dealing with a controversial subject, he countered that "if some people are against adultery, and it is controversial, then some people must be in favor...
...Harvard graduate, Class of 1900, living near the college, one of the greatest advantages that I enjoy is the Widener Library. In this regard I have a suggestion and request to make in respect to books on the subject of nutrition. In recent years a great interest has developed in the field of human nutrition. It has been found that chemical additives used in commercially available foods are devitalizing such foods and seriously impairing their nutritive value...
...great many books have been recently published here and abroad on the subject of food and nutrition written by physicians. But hardly any of these are listed in the library card index. There are somewhere between 50 and 100 books listed under Foods, but they are mostly between 50 and 100 years old, written before most of our present nutritional problems had arisen. These old books can all be taken out by the Harvard and Radcliffe students, unmarried and married with children. A few modern books are listed in the index, but they are mostly in the Medical School Library...