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...Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...
...month, paid in advance, clients of the Ross-Loos Clinic get any kind of doctoring or surgery they may require. This looks very much like the turnip of medical insurance and the beet of corporate medical practice, both of which nauseate the A. M. A. When Drs. Ross & Loos acquired 40,000 clients and a staff of 50 doctors, the A. M. A. expelled them. Subsequently lawyers forced the A. M. A. to take Drs. Ross & Loos back into the fold, on the technicality of an unfair trial...
...weighs a little more than 1,700 Ib. Kept in a large box stall, she was carefully guarded against undue excitement. She consumed more than 21 tons of food and unlimited quantities of water. A typical daily ration: 40 Ib. of green feed; 12 Ib. of beet pulp; 25 Ib. of sliced beets; 20 Ib. of silage; 20 Ib. of mixed grain feed; 2 Ib. of molasses. When the weather was good Daisy was allowed to graze for two hours daily...
...taken to Utah by his immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk hat of a Mormon missionary...
...cases in which it must weigh the velvet provided by the New Deal for farmers against the cold marble of the Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned up as "friends'' in the person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned with...