Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard dogs have a record of ten centuries of heroic achievement behind them. But Dr. Jean Bremond was not thinking about records when he demanded last fortnight that all the dogs at the Great St. Bernard Hospice in Switzerland be destroyed, that the monks stop breeding them. If this were done, Dr. Bremond said he would not sue the monastery over the horrible death of his ten-year-old daughter, Marie-Anne, fatally mangled by a pack of St. Bernards as she and her father skied up to the hospice last month (TIME...
...Bremond argued that the dogs of St. Bernard no longer serve a useful purpose since traveling conditions in the mountains have improved. The monks breed them only to sell and as objects of curiosity, he claimed. He found a few sympathizers in the district who said the St. Bernard breed has degenerated, that Swiss gendarmes have been forced to kill several dogs grown vicious because the monks keep them tied up for long periods, allowing them off leashes only twice a day at most...
...lovers on two continents came to the defense of this noble breed's original strain. Newspapers as far removed in editorial policy as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York Sun published editorials urging mercy. The St. Bernard, said the Sun, "ought in fairness to be judged by his long and respectable history, not by the crimes of an occasional rogue...
...union next made a broader, bolder move to close the plants still operating. It set out to organize the ore mines in upper Michigan and Minnesota, to shut off Republic's ore supply. Representative John T. Bernard of Eveleth, Minn., one-time miner, fireman and labor leader-who signalized his appearance in Congress last January by delaying passage of the Neutrality Act until the Mar Cantabrico had sailed with a cargo of arms for Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. 18)-hastened home from the Capital to help C.I.O. organize the iron-miners...
...life. Now fortune sndles on the "Saturday Review of Literature," just fathered by Mother Advocate. Run to your newsdealer, buy a copy, be in the thick of the fight. The "Saturday Review's" circulation soars; the "New Masses" vituperates; the Writers' Congress passes posthumous deprecation Number 33; Bernard De Voto glows and expands...