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Early last month while farmers stolidly eyed their burning pastures, another group of U. S. citizens whose living is also made from an agricultural product began to fear not shortage but glut. This group??? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
...Manus. Children, like their father, who spoils them, are apt to despise their mother. They are callous about death, birth, the facts of life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group???the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage when crossed...
...fleets entered New York harbor last week, the S. S. America, with bunting and flags, sailed out of the same harbor bearing the first group???234 strong?of Gold Star mothers whom the U. S. Government is sending at U. S. expense to battle graves in France. The day was an anniversary. Thirteen years prior the Orduna had slipped out to sea from New York bearing the first units...
Rated. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. is still the only U. S. polo player whose handicap is 10 goals. Winston Guest is still the only one with 9. But in the new ratings issued last week by the Polo Association there was a new 8-goal man, alone in his group???Elmer J. Boeske Jr. All summer Boeske played in the East with the Greentree team, and his hard shots and adroit riding were one good reason why the Greentree team won the Waterbury cup (TIME, Aug. 5; Sept. 16). J. Cheever Cowdin, William Averell Harriman, and Harry East, all veterans, were...
...pressure of the price-fixing group???both parties?began last week to tell on the Administration, with the prospect that its farm plans might be modified. Secretary Jardine announced that he was considering the problem of the surplus, that he had decided to call a number of "leaders" to Washington from time to time to confer on a "sound and effective" plan. So the Administration began to turn in its tracks...