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Britain & France. With the French Parliament reconvening this week. Premier Pierre Laval snatched a four-day holiday on his country estate, a medieval barony with castle, drawbridge and moat which this earthy son of a butcher has bought with the millions of francs he has earned as a lawyer...
Pete Stone, speedy left wingman, shared scoring honors with center Austie Harding, each beating goalie Clarke of Framingham on three occasions. The summary: HARVARD 1939 FRAMINGHAM Stone, Miles, Cunningham, l.w. l.w., Carey, Shaughnessy Harding, Jameson, Winsor, c. c., Glover, Haggerty Scaife, Hunnewell, Butcher, r.w. r.w., Pryor, Kimball Houghton, Carstein, Wright, l.d. l.d., Monahan, Guston Fearon, Coburn, Aldrich, r.d. r.d., Slade, Savage Irving, Kerr, g. g., Clarke
...Milwaukee, when members of meat cutters union local No. 73 picketed his store with placards saying, "UNFAIR," a butcher hired two fat Negro women to walk beside the pickets carrying bigger signs, "JUST MARRIED...
...keep him going all these years his trainers had doped him consistently, more & more. His system had become slowly tolerant and partially immune to huge hypodermic shots of dope which would have killed another horse. When the old plug gave out at last he was bought by an unsuspecting butcher with the usual gold horse's head over his door and the usual polite euphemism on his sign "BOUCHERIE HIPPOPHAGIQUE...
Under the law of France he who butchers horsemeat can butcher no other sort of meat; French housewives obliged to serve their families "poor man's meat" are sensitive about it. In Paris alone 69,323 horses were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed...