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Last week the Elders of Andorra hiked over the mountains to France to pay their annual tribute to their French prince. According to laws dating back to 1278, it should have consisted of two of every kind of livestock raised in Andorra. President Lebrun, however, has no place to keep sheep and goats in the Elysée Palace at Paris, so his representative, Prefect Raoul Didkowski of the Lower Pyrenees, instead accepted...
...heat of midsummer many strange notions pop into people's heads. Last week one Clarence Giles, a 220-lb., 41-year-old Montana livestock auctioneer, took a notion to swim nonstop down the Yellowstone River from Billings to Glendive-288 miles-for no apparent reason except to see his name in the papers and put his hometown of Glendive...
Died. Murdo Mackenzie, 89, Scottish-born president of the American National Livestock Association; in Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which...
...subside: 4,000,000 families moved back to their farms by May. In the Central Black Soil region-Russia's richest farmland-64% of collectivized families fled home two months after the drive ended. And although, the next year, 58% of peasant households were in collectives, livestock continued to be slaughtered until it was made a capital offense, until the 1933 livestock population was smaller than it had been in 1922, until 5% of collective farm income was devoted to repaying peasants for property they contributed. But there were fewer peasants, more prisoners, and 19,000,000 fewer horses...
...Balkans, Greece invaded Turkey, occupied Anatolia, was driven back after more than a year of fighting. Rumanian, Czech and Yugoslavian armies overran Hungary, seized livestock, locomotives, battled the Communist Government of Bela...