Word: feeding
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When John P. Moodie's automobile struck and killed Pedestrian Robert J. McDonell in Detroit last June, McDonell's widow Faye was left with four small children to feed, and a fifth on the way. Last week Detroit Traffic Judge John D. Watts (see cut) offered Moodie a choice of punishments: go to jail for "four or five years," or help support the McDonell children for five years. Moodie, a $120-a-week tool-factory worker with four children of his own to support, agreed to pay the widow $80 a month...
...alone). These families had "squatted" on the white farms, giving labor in exchange for a little land and a little cash. Now they are being returned to the Kikuyu reserves-whether they had land in the reserves or not. Most had not; the Kenya government hopes their relatives will feed them...
...says Author Gibney, lies in understanding the "web" society of Japan. It is based not on anything resembling democratic fairness or Christian morality, but on a semifeudal system of responsibilities and obligations that drains the individuality from all. A poverty-stricken farmer must without question feed a tenth cousin he may hate. Not law, but the web, demands it, just as it lays down that suicide is preferable to capture by the enemy. Overseas in World War II the web was lifted, and Japanese soldiers went on a moral rampage. But when Hirohito perforce accepted the U.S. occupation, MacArthur...
...since taking office, Benson has been preaching the need for getting the farmer out from under a rigged economy. Yet there, on his desk before him last week, lay the sorry facts about the butter industry. Butter is selling badly, and dairymen still have to pay support prices for feed. The question: Should he extend Government price supports, at 90% of parity, on butter for another year? Benson came to a reluctant decision: butter's props will be kept for the new crop year, commencing April...
Sponser Doncaster said the law would awaken people to the need for control over the lurid editions that feed the newsstands. Patrick A. Tompkins, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, supported:". . . there is a crying need for review and restriction of the publication and distribution of such obscene and lewd publication peddled in most corner stores...