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...Sundays. Sometimes he started again at 12:05 a.m. Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judiciary: One-Man Law Wave | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...despite the high tension. President Manuel Avila Camacho was really moving very cautiously. To be sure, war would give his rightist Government a chance to "unify" Mexico, extend controls over labor, prices, economic resources, keep the business boom from going hog-wild. He was being urged hard toward war by Foreign Minister Padilla, who saw it as the culmination of his hemispheric policy, and by the great Communist-led labor groups who wanted a crusade against Fascism in alliance with Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: War and the People | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Reader Darlington's constructive criticism (TIME, April 27) in the review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings (TIME, March 23) pertaining to hog breeding is certainly not true in all cases and "hats off" to Miss Rawlings for knowing her hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...specialize in Hampshire hogs and raise better than 200 annually and I know for a fact that a sow will take a boar when suckling pigs. I have seven sows in my orchard with my boar hog. There are also 52 four-week-old pigs with the sows and today I saw the boar service three sows and in a short time their pigs were nursing. All the sows in that field have been bred and all of them have suckling pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Note: Maybe the climate in Virginia is more conducive to hog breeding than it is in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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