Word: dogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Butler seems to think that there is a scarcity of food in the country and that dogs are depriving starving children of much-needed nourishment. From what I have read about the low prices of farm products, including livestock, it would appear that there is more food than can be absorbed by the poorly distributed purchasing power of the American people. . . . The spending of money by those who have enough of it, even though it be for so small an item as food for dogs, helps to give employment to stock-raisers, the railroads, butchers, and workers engaged...
...follows that "mitigation of the dog nuisance," up to destruction of 100% of these 900 dogs will add not one whit to the available food supply for babies this winter...
...read Daddy's TIME every week. Nov. 21 you published a letter, "Babies and Dogs." I am a boy 10 years old. I had a beautiful setter that was a constant guard, companion and friend until I was 8. Then she died. I now have a nice police dog, one of the seven million dogs mentioned, I guess. I have a little friend who has what Dad says is just "a mangy cur,'' another of the seven millions, but Bobby loves him just as much as I love my police dog, and it would...
...wrote that letter never had a dog of his own, and he sure missed a lot of fun and pleasure. Daddy says he has missed a lot more than that, and he is sorry...
...glad that TIME "proposed no plan" for getting rid of our dog friends...