Business & Finance: Onions

Formed in Manhattan last week was a National Committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." The Committee's plans were tentative. Said Secretary A. W. Lockwood: "Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is as pleasing as that of a rose, if you look at it right. Others favor an attempt to popularize the scientists' findings and show the public how to eliminate onion breath.* A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath may be just The Bronx....

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