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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrinkled, doggy, 74-year-old Townsend Scudder, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, won a Connecticut State Supreme Court injunction allowing him to maintain 27 cocker spaniels on his Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn, estate. Thus ended a litigious two years in which neighbors, annoyed by barking, had sought to hold Judge Scudder down to a measly ten spaniels...
...land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska, which expects 4.53 inches, got 1.15; Iowa, expecting 7.81 inches, got 2.82. Total U. S. water shortage reached 400,000,000,000 tons, left several States with their next-to-record drought, left Wisconsin with its smallest rainfall on record...
...skinny, tired, nervous, rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press...
...Fort Collins, Colo., Colorado State College empiricists slowly killed a pack of white rats by feeding them a coed's diet...
Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some others, an almost incalculably rich and subtle portrait of the late igth Century South: as a State, as a people, as reflected in platoons of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, industrialists, preachers and educators; as pinned down in thousands upon thousands of facts of all sorts and sizes; as embodied in every...