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...Philadelphia argued vehemently against the subject. "An undue limitation of fecundity has been one of the precursors to the extinction of a civilization or the subjugation of a people by a more virile and prolific race. We have already gone some distance on this road. . . . If a breeder of livestock defied the laws of eugenics as we do. he would be ruined." The A. M. A. as usual pigeonholed the subject...
...Chicago, Stanley Janseki, 35, onetime farmer, missed his farm and livestock, went to the stockyards to see the cows, started to milk one, was arrested, said to the judge: "I just wanted to see if I could still milk...
...alone were bank clearings missing from important indices by which businessmen are accustomed to gauge the state of business. All stock exchanges and most commodity exchanges (except livestock and other perishables) failed to function. Businessmen searching for straws in every wind last week found them of two contradictory kinds...
...gentile Governors were not allowed to sleep. Before dawn that Saturday morning there were moratoria in Iowa. Missouri, Minnesota, with others following fast. Before 10 a.m. the closing of all the security and commodity exchanges of Chicago and New York had been announced- all except the Livestock Exchange in Chicago, for livestock is perishable, its distribution must go on. By that hour the three-block-long factory of the American Bank Note plant in The Bronx was roaring with activity, with police at the doors to keep the inquisitive away. At 1 :oo p.m. 100,000 citizens whose banks were...
...Butler seems to think that there is a scarcity of food in the country and that dogs are depriving starving children of much-needed nourishment. From what I have read about the low prices of farm products, including livestock, it would appear that there is more food than can be absorbed by the poorly distributed purchasing power of the American people. . . . The spending of money by those who have enough of it, even though it be for so small an item as food for dogs, helps to give employment to stock-raisers, the railroads, butchers, and workers engaged...