Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Animal Husbandry. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Betty Phillips sued for divorce, charged that when the meat shortage developed, her husband's pet lion "came first" at mealtimes, and she went meatless...
...encounter with the Fred Allen program later that night after the Kids vanquished the commentators. Comic Joe Besser hurtled off the stage and bowled the waiting Kupperman into the wings. The Kid came up weeping, but went on anyway. The incident did not halt his plea for a pet to take home with him. Deciding that rabbits "whelped too fast," he settled for a parrot ("It wouldn't eat too much or have to go out for walks...
...considering his resolution, Senator Lodge agreed to lay it aside, added, with sardonic significance: "The undersigned Senators declare that, if they had the opportunity, they would have voted for the resolution." The undersigned names added up to 37; it was the first clear warning to Woodrow Wilson that his pet treaty could not muster a two-thirds majority. Angrily Woodrow Wilson sailed off to Europe; in the resulting clash between a dogmatic President and the "Irreconcilables," the treaty and the League were lost...
...galleries were even more frantic than usual, as the college basketball season drew toward its close this week. This year, for the first time in the game's history, there is a real national championship at stake. In former years every section of the U.S. touted its pet team, prayed for a bid to the National Collegiate A.A. play-offs or the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden. This year the winners of these two events will meet in an April play-off in the Garden, for the benefit of the Red Cross...
...Corp.'s Vultee and Stinson divisions, pushed so hard Vultee was soon the No. 1 U.S. training-plane maker and Stinson one of the best known private-plane makers. Then came Emanuel's big coup: with $11,000,000 cash (two-thirds of it begged & borrowed) his pet Vultee bought into Consolidated. To make sure nothing went wrong, Emanuel tagged tough, dynamic Republic Steel Board Chairman Tom Girdler to run both Vultee and Consolidated...