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...home constituency, the Right Reverend Michael Fogarty of Killaloe. In a speech to undergraduates of a Catholic college the Bishop blamed the President for inviting trade reprisals, cried: "You are the sons of farmers whose unhappy lot it has become to see their industry and sole source of livelihood practically killed by a heartlessness which is inconceivable." As if to nail home the Bishop's point Britain last week made the Free State farmers' lot unhappier still by announcing that British imports of Irish "fat cattle" will be cut in half for the next three months, imports...
...Connecticut farmers' means of livelihood the Connecticut Board of Fisheries & Game last week added pheasants. It announced regulations for privately-owned pheasant-shooting preserves whose owners may lease shooting privileges to outsiders. The Board's purpose was "to test and demonstrate the claim that private shooting areas . . . are not harmful to the public interest and are beneficial to the majority of sportsmen by producing more game birds of which many will spread out from the intensively developed areas to restock surrounding covers." The regular pheasant season of one month will be enforced on preserves which release at least...
...which Mrs. Roosevelt is talking about is Prohibiting Poverty, a 131-pp. volume by a Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin of Florida. Mrs. Martin, 71, is a onetime Fabian Socialist, wife of a lecturer at individualistic Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.). At Rollins Mrs. Martin had lectured on her National Livelihood Plan. Her preamble is as follows: ALL OF THE NATION'S YOUNG PEOPLE OF BOTH SEXES, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 26, AS A CONTINUATION OF THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, SHALL BE INDUSTRIALLY ORGANIZED TO PRODUCE, UNDER SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION, A SUFFICIENCY OF THE NECESSARY GOODS AND SERVICES...
...Professional football, I really believe, is much cleaner than college football," "Lone Star" continued in response to a query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game...
...plan is a practical one, suitable for immediate use. The only answer is to this is, 'Yes'. According to the estimates my agents send me there are now over two hundred thousand men and women who have resorted to this method of gaining a livelihood and who are getting by. The most conservative estimate of their recovery of gold is fifty cents...