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...week came 29 trawlers jampacked with two million pounds of fish for the Lenten trade. But when the fish was put up for sale in the smoke-filled Fish Exchange, only 118,000 lbs. were sold. It was not for lack of bidders. As auctioneers went through their babble ("Haddock on the Maine . . . I'm offered seven . . . seventy-five . . . seven-eighty . . .all done? . . . all done"), haddock finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union, whose...
...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
...cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing his chauffeur and the janitor of a public hall and no one else the other night. . . . Today the Canadian political audience looks like ... a cargo of dead haddock. The statesman gazing into these cold, unblinking eyes ... is frightened to say anything he would not repeat in church...
Stewart, a popular author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play...
...Supreme Court decision not only sent the Williamses home to live as man & wife; it swept on to clear the legitimacy of children of divorced parents who remarry. It ducked the question of property rights. Overturned was a 37-year precedent, the Haddock v. Haddock case, in which the court held New York need not give full faith and credit to a Connecticut divorce decree...