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...reader of TIME, the most fascinating and informative of any of the magazines to which I subscribe, and if this characterizes me as a freak, I feel deeply complimented. For over 50 years I have bred, fed and sold thousands of spotted pigs from coast to coast. In the live stock world there is a slogan: "Mrs. Conrad has spotted the United States," and I have been the only president of a live stock record in this country. This misguided man Abbott, who, on my birth day, June 5, maligned my sex must not be very busy; therefore in these...
...This code represented only the unionized one-quarter of the bituminous industry, promised much controversy. Provided was an eight-hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers; $4 per day for outside men. Employes did not have to live in company houses or trade at company stores. Lumber. Work & wages ranged from 48 hours at $10.80 for cypress and pine men in the South to 40 hours at $18 for Philippine mahogany. In West Coast logging camps the minimum rate was to be $20.40 for 48 hours. This code...
Sixteen States, in which live 43% of the nation's population, had successively turned thumbs down on national Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment. The Prohibition Bureau had just had its personnel reduced 40% in the interest of Government economy, leaving a staff of less than 2,000 to enforce the Volstead Act from coast to coast. Andrew John Volstead, author of that Act, had just lost his $4,500 per year job as counsel to the Prohibition administration at St. Paul. Nevertheless, the scores & scores of white-clad, earnest ladies of the W. C. T. U. remained undaunted...
...should those who live in glass houses not throw stones...
Because bitter experience of a generation is not inherited, patriotism will live on. Individuals cannot resist the call of martial trumpets. Patriotism cannot be outlawed, but war can through the patient efforts of skillful unselfish diplomats using the facts of economic interdependance for their operations...