Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, "Blue Boy," prize hog, film actor, star of the Phil Stong-Will Rogers cinema State Fair (TIME, Feb. 6); of overeating and overgrooming; in Hollywood...
...extremely productive artists, is highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...
...feature of the corn hog program that I have not seen mentioned in any of the papers will be the cutting down of farm help needed. Here in southwestern Iowa there are many farmer-and-sons units and by signing up they will be able to dispense with one hired man. I am opposed to buying up the deserted land by the government...
...Wallace appointed to succeed George Nelson Peek as Agricultural Adjustment Administrator a short, nervous man named Chester Charles Davis, aged 46. Good friend of both Messrs. Peek and Wallace, Chester Davis has been in Washington since May when he was appointed to decide for John Farmer just how many hogs he may raise per annum. This he was able to do by virtue of long experience as a cowhand, hog raiser and wheat grower on his father's farm in Iowa...
...instead of drudgery. Des Moines is Secretary Wallace's home town. Before becoming a Cabinet official he edited Wallace's Farmer there, Iowans turned out 10,000 strong to hear their native son speak in the Coliseum. He declared that the Government's corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated by the President's new gold policy and by the upping of industrial wages under the NRA. But he conceded that such inflation might be slow. "This is especially true of dairy and livestock products." he said...