Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your June 7 issue, you publish a letter from Mr. Arthur Tuckerman, of Gstaad, Switzerland, about a master-ratsman dog Bippo, referring to Standard Oil's cat Minnie (TIME, April 12). As the subject appears to possess so much public interest, may I not contribute the following additional information re animal rat-slayers on corporate payrolls...
...with blank surprise. If they had been told that in the face of pending Congressional action on a phalanx of important New Deal bills Franklin Roosevelt had decided to go off on a fishing trip, they would have been only mildly surprised. But this was man-bites-dog. John Nance Garner was going fishing in Texas, off for an indefinite vacation of two to six weeks...
...dog-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...
Meanwhile the Swiss gendarmerie completed its investigation of the dogs who killed Marie-Anne Bremond, announced last week that they were "of general good nature and not a public danger." No dogs were ordered destroyed, but three who might prove dangerous were to be sent over the border to an Italian dog farm. Later in the week, one of the monks at the St. Bernard Hospice told United Press that the monks had voluntarily destroyed these three dogs, that eight others will be kept under observation all summer in an enclosed park. Next winter the monks plan to let their...
...This declaration of policy also applies to dog racing...