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...Kansas, farmers last week were selling 200,000 head of cattle to the Government before they died on the hoof from thirst. In some places farmers drove their livestock into woodlots and cut down trees to give them leaves to munch. Travelers through southwestern Kansas reported what they mistook for a new oil boom. Everywhere drilling crews were working night and day driving wells for water...
Last week Dr. Vargas smoothly and speedily arranged the detail of being elected President of Brazil constitutionally. All but 73 of the 248 Deputies of the Constituent Assembly gave their well-drilled votes to Dr. Vargas who comes from the livestock State of Rio Grande do Sul. As he expected, he got no votes from the Deputies of the rebellious coffee State of São Paulo, who voted for their own coffee candidate, Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials...
...Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo...
...Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week 20 carloads of hay, cotton seed meal and cake and other livestock food rolled out of grateful Arkansas bound for prostrate South Dakota...
Flames leaped from pen to pen, scorched cattle, sheep and hogs, threatened the huge packing plants of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., sprang at the big Livestock Exchange. Up went the Dexter Pavilion, scene of many a great livestock exposition. Up went the old Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...