Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards. For the first time it became publicly known that for years certain breeders have been injecting their cattle with subcutaneous matter (oils, paraffin) to fill out sags and wrinkles in their animals carcasses. Even Lucky Strike, last year's grand champion steer, owned by 20-year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, who used his prize money to pay off the mortgage on his homestead (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929), was found when slaughtered to have had his hide lifted. Said Chief John R. Mohler of the Federal Animal Industry Bureau: "When such malpractices as these...
...entry, but he led the grand champion. Jimmy, a coal-black Aberdeen Angus like Lucky Strike, into the prize ring. Aberdeen Anguses have won nine international shows, more than any other breed. Jimmy's owner is Banker J. Frank McKenny of King City, Mo. whose herdsman is Elliott Brown's uncle. There was no chicanery about Jimmy's championship. He was sold for beef at auction to the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, for $2,700, or $2.50 per Ib. (Last year's prizewinner was bought by Chainstoreman James Cash Penney...
Charles Francis Elliott...
...sooner had the President proclaimed the law than Representatives John Elliott Rankin of Mississippi and Lester Jess Dickinson (Senator-elect) of Iowa flayed it. Dickinson said he would propose increasing the House by at least 27 members, so that no State should lose Representatives. Rankin returned to his old criticism of the Constitution which decrees that representation shall be calculated according to the number of "persons" residing in a locality. He cried: "Is it right to give the alien rum runners and racketeers representation in Congress and take it away from Indiana, Tennessee, the Dakotas, Kentucky and Missouri...
Engaged. Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake, 76, of the 2nd Colorado Congressional district, famed beet-sugar advocate; and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, onetime headwaitress at the George Washington Inn; in Washington...