Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME exaggerates the digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs...
...Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn...
Three eminent Democrats held a premature political convention of their own last week in the letters columns of the New York Times, where they were certain of getting a wider audience than they could enjoy at Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served...
...that his decision to close down last week originated in his dislike of doing business under the Roosevelt Administration. A more logical explanation was that Mr. Kent was simply tired of the radio industry. If he does not begin manufacturing something else, he can settle down for good to enjoy what he once called "the simple life, on a grand scale...
KNOCKOUT - Charles Francis Coe - Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game...