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...million and increasing the Democratic total by 5 million since 1932, F.D.R. built the force that came to be known as the Roosevelt coalition. To the solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn...
...hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded...
...left side of his massive back. Asked Connolly coolly: "Is there a doctor here?" With a shot of novocain in his back, Connolly whirled out a throw of 212 ft. 3½ in. to finish second by 2 ft. 3½ in. to Al Hall, 25, a 205-lb. poultryman from Southington, Conn...
Meanwhile, Poultryman Cannaday's 1,700 Leghorns were producing their pre-rebellion quota of 80 doz. eggs daily, only production drop noted being just after an air raid when the hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
...years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part...