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...peasants are learning a painful caution about black bread. It is made of rye. Russian rye is subject to ergot rust. Sometimes only one or two grains of the rye head are affected. The ergot is useful in obstetrics. In Russia, ergot occasionally is ground in with the rye flour, inadvertently causes abortions, gangrene...
...fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton, husband of the daughter of Postum-Founder...
...Buchmanism, which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This gave the society an unsavory reputation among many outsiders. To others it seemed ridiculous. Many an undergraduate and alumnus has spattered mud, flour, beer on the allegorically righteous bronze figure of the Christian Student, which stands across the road from Murray-Dodge Hall, small brownstone. neo-Gothic citadel of the society (TIME. Dec. 2). Two facetious undergraduates once conducted a campaign for the presidency and vice presidency of the organization which...
...held for alumni of the Law School, Medical School, Business School, Engineering School, Arts and Sciences, Education and Architecture, and possibly Divinity. In the afternoon the men will be taken to the various points of interest, with visits to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, University of Minnesota, and the flour mills for which St. Paul and Minneapolis are so famous. In the evening there will be a dinner, not solely for Graduate School men, but for all Harvard graduates. At this dinner Nathan Hayward '95, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, will preside: the speakers have not yet been selected...
When Mr. Hoover as President-Elect was feted in Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 24. 1928), he roused tremendous popular enthusiasm by calling Argentina "the world's bread basket," a remark which Argentines misunderstood to mean that Mr. Hoover favored the introduction of bread made from Argentine flour into U. S. bread baskets...