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This was banned from the U. S. by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930), which prohibits importation from countries infected with hoof-&-mouth disease (Argentina is one. Others: Ireland and Britain- }. Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina, has never had hoof-&-mouth disease, is protected from the nation's chief cattle-growing regions by a mountain range and 200 miles of desert. The least Argentina expects from a Good Neighbor is permission to ship fresh meat from Patagonia. A convention negotiated by the sympathetic U. S. State Department in 1935 would give them this permission...
...Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat
Thousands of visiting Democrats and a few donkeys appeared in Chicago last week. Most of the donkeys (on the hoof and on signs) were soon removed. Exactly why, delegates to the Democratic Party's 28th National Convention had to judge for themselves: unexplained mysteries were the rule in Chicago. On a wall of the Convention's vast (21,000 seats) Chicago Stadium, a huge picture of a donkey was replaced by a spotlighted, grisly sketch of Franklin Roosevelt. Assiduously distributed were 500,000 campaign buttons, adorned not by a donkey but by a bright red cock...
...colors. The Furtwaengler is a truly magnificent recording, not as literal as the Weingartner, but with tremendous sweep and surge, and recorded beautifully, even though it was issued several years ago. The Furtwaengler is best, but all three are better than Maestro Toscanini's version which sound like the "Hoof Movement" from the "Overture to William Tell...
...looked on the war as a pitiful era of confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose, dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty minutes before the drawing room door opened and nurse came in to say that it was bed time . . ."). And with a dogged, unhurried intensity he makes Tubby Windrush grow up, grow...