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...House seats are up, and from all indications it looks as though the G. O. P.'s present little herd would be just about doubled. This would represent a respectable comeback for a party which has taken three successive and terrible beatings at the polls since 1932. And last week the man whose job it was to change this strong possibility into a reality was quietly attending to his job in Washington...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...
...reaching Mexico City, where the sky is always blue and the air as sparkling as a pailletted gown, the Vagabond found little to deter his progress save a herd of lethargic cattle at every turn of the road, and, amidst every cluster of thatched huts, dozens of farrowing pigs that would scuttle under and around his car with uncivilized abandon...
...Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon...
...could hardly believe my eyes. I didn't think it was possible. I want to raise the heifer calves, but I don't know whether I will raise the bull." He said he valued the mother at $300, the calves at $15 each. However, the whole little herd may be valueless. In multiple mixed births, the calves are usually free-martins (hermaphrodites), useless for milking or breeding, and the bulls also are sometimes sexually abnormal...