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...dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive human animal writhing in the throes of gender," "foul and degenerate parcel of folks," "the hangdog and hookworm...
...corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated by the President's new gold policy and by the upping of industrial wages under the NRA. But he conceded that such inflation might be slow. "This is especially true of dairy and livestock products." he said. "It may be necessary to increase quickly and materially the purchasing power of the people who consume those products. In other words, industrial payrolls must be increased...
...Bryan once in a primary and whom President Roosevelt appointed as State NRA chairman. Mr. Neville proceeded to resign from NRA because he felt "entirely out of sympathy with the manner in which NRA's program is being conducted in agricultural states. . . . The price of agricultural products, including livestock, in Nebraska today is less than was the case when the program went into effect...
...farmers, faced by a 50% drop in agricultural prices since the Tithe Act of 1925, vow that "On a 1,000-acre farm the tithe costs as much as five workers are paid now!" In Kent alone last week 600 farmers were specifically menaced by actions to seize their livestock. Most Britons agree that the 1925 rates should have been scaled down before Parliament adjourned (TIME, Aug. 7), but the Lords & Commons went home without facing the issue. Last week for the first time an aristocrat popped up among England's tithe-embattled farmers. Horsy and determined Lady Evelyn...
...been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter an assessor was at Ashgrove appraising the damage. One day last week Saratoga County heard how much the turkeys had cost it-$459, at three dollars a head. Next night, despite Ashgrove's armed watchman, the dogs got in again, killed...