Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated Missouri mule, isolationist by temperament, has been having some rude shocks, is due for more. Mules sent to Mexico as replacements for oxen killed in the campaign against aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease) have been causing trouble because they were too pampered...
...jovial, mule-stubborn, Missouri-born Republican, Bob Denham switched to the Democrats in 1938 to help beat Franklin Roosevelt's attempted purge of conservative Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. Officially he has never switched back. He first turned up in Washington officialdom in 1933 to help reorganize the closed national banks, after a law career in Seattle and Manhattan financial circles. Since 1938 he has been an NLRB trial examiner...
...sulphurous meeting in Washington last week, 50 of the nation's biggest mule dealers cussed in concert as only men who have mingled with mules can cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
...fire behind this sulphurous cloud was caused by 1) a mixup by the Department of Agriculture and 2) a smart trick by Dealer Owen. Last May, the Department of Agriculture wired all big dealers that it wanted to buy mules for resale to Mexico. They were needed to replace oxen exterminated in Mexico's hoof-&-mouth epizootic. The dealers bought up 8,000 mules, signed contracts to buy 12,000 more. But when they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...