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...phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide to fell a span of oxen. Rasputin wolfed these whole...
...enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling as I see the matter...
...world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent...
...allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes he would hitch it to a team of oxen, to emphasize his contempt for motors...
...This conviction he owed not to the evidence of any single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places in the West and Southwest, he pointed out, human remains and crude implements had been found in association with certain species of ground sloths, musk oxen, elephants, all long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer...