Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Topeka was in the midst of another pet controversy-this time over cats. Judge William Amos Smith, onetime Kansas attorney general and Supreme Court justice, has three children, seven cats. The children are all right with his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Archie Smith (no kin), but she objects decidedly to the cats. Protesting their "terrific odor," she lately went to the city commissioners. They decided to meet this issue squarely. In a stormy session they passed an ordinance forbidding Topekans to harbor more than five cats within 250 ft. of a dwelling. Fine for infraction...
Professor Slye's pet idea for some time has been the organization of a central bureau where all human cancer cases would be registered so that studies could be made of the cases and histories be formed of all of them for better breeding of future generations. That is, do with humans what she has done with mice. She has tried to get the American College of Surgeons to keep the records in their plant, but so far she has not been successful. She calls genetics the "last outpost of science," thinks some day people will pay the attention...
...worth $19,900,000. Since then, said President Jamison last week, the stockmarket had been good to him. Globe & Rutgers' assets now exceeded liabilities by $10,000,000. The court pondered his plea. Wall Street wondered if Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories on the New Deal market: ''Buy the worst stocks and make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers $1 and $1.01 a bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three...
...general's helper, Dudley Gates, labored to aid lumbermen with their code, got them to include in it Roosevelt's pet, forest conservation. Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public...
...Judge of Denver's Juvenile Court. Long has peppery, little Judge Lindsey trooped up & down the country with a marital Utopia under his arm and at the end of his tongue, wrangling with churchmen and standpatters, touching off a conflagration of protest. One of Judge Lindsey's pet anathemas has been what he calls "bootleg divorce," i. e. divorce by amicable agreement but fixed up to look as though one party had been wronged by the other, to conform to the law. He violently wants to change that...