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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. "I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meagre that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day. I see millions. ... I see millions. ... I see millions...
Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
...communal status" of these lands centuries ago, prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors and their land-lordly Church. Today the Mexican peasant who is set down by the Government on a piece of land retains title to it only so long as he and his direct descendants live and continue to work it, after which the land automatically reverts to the "Mexican community...
...table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them. This done, he started for the door, stumbled, dropped his basket. Out popped three live wild ducks, which went flapping up & down the room to the hilarious confusion of the distinguished but convivial banqueters...
...herself and her peers she makes one of her characters say: ''Although their rights have been curtailed, they are all the same expected to keep isolated, to live as though they had no human passions, desires, feelings. Much has been taken from them but little has been given them in return, hardly even the belief in their superiority...