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...Oklahoma is a queer, wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
Organized labor is no sacred cow to Thurman Arnold, mustachioed, bag-eyed, bellicose Assistant Attorney General whose special province (and obsession) is trust busting. Like all good New Dealers Mr. Arnold believes labor's rights are sacred. But he has a reservation: their sanctity vanishes the moment labor tramples on other people's rights. Holding this standard high, he campaigned against corrupt unions, corrupt labor bosses, ran up a fine fat set of newspaper clippings, suddenly fell into a hole and disappeared from sight...
Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...
...Cow Creek Seminoles live in 20 scattered camps, "cluttered with dogs, pigs, chickens and small children, through which mélange the women calmly move." Though every good matron owns an antique Singer sewing machine, their other modern conveniences are rarely more than battered old lard pails. Of their social structure Spoehr writes...
...some friends formed a company to sell the gravel from the beach in front of her summer place at Bognor Regis on England's south coast. There beauteous Lady Diana slopped the hogs, kept two swarms of bees, tended two goats, 30 chickens, milked The Princess (a cow). "The Princess is such a lovely cow," said she. "I simply adore her. And she gives so much good milk...