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...hard, just, God-fearing man is Abram Kean. A devout Wesleyan Methodist, he neither drinks nor swears. Even if pious Newfoundland's law did not forbid it, he would no more think of letting one of his "swilers" (sealers) crack a seal's skull on Sunday than he would think of failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three...
...breeds entered as a class at the show this year were bull mastiff and Great Pyrenees. Brindled and powerful, with a worried wrinkle in its big, square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
...champion was imported from England two months ago by Stanley Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y. Last week lay spectators admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...
...world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle the British taxpayer with the national debt of bankrupt Newfoundland (TIME, Dec. 18), the Laborite-Liberal Opposition were helpless to oppose the Government's Conservative steamroller but finally grew so angry that the House resounded with homely English abuse. "You dirty dog!" shouted Laborite Aneurin Bevan at Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who was driving the steamroller. "You swelled...
...next three years, announced beak-nosed British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, the British taxpayer will make good Newfoundland's budgetary deficit as a "free gift"-expected to total ?2,000,000 ($10,300,000 at current exchange). Later the great island's debt will be amortized through a sinking fund...