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...Democratic party . . . will steer the legislation of the nation in a straight line toward the goal of prosperity. . . . The 72nd Congress will not be an obstructive body. It will not seek to embarrass the President. ... It has in mind no rash policies. Its legislative leaders are serious men, constructive but not reactionary. . . . They know perfectly well that even enlightened political selfishness demands that business should not be frightened. ... If there are delays, embarrassments and confusion in the 72nd Congress, the fault will lie with the other party failing to join us in a conscientious effort to subordinate politics...
...rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth of the hole while a box was slipped under it. This specimen is now in Longfellow Zoological Park, Minneapolis...
Will James's father was a cowpuncher. When Will was a little shaver his mother died and soon afterward his father was gored to death by a steer. Orphan Will was taken over by a friend of his father, a Frenchman named Beaupré. From "Bopy" the boy learned all about how to live in the open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered...
Certainly a line or two in "Milestones" could chronicle this fact along with the announcement of elections of other bishops. Isn't a bishop more important than the death of a bull or a camel (TIME, June 2)? I have a hunch that this is a good steer...
...cowboy until 1905 when he went on tour with Col. Zachary Mulhall's Wild West Show. One night in Madison Square Garden a steer broke loose and jumped over the rails into the audience. Rogers roped it and was given so much publicity that he was booked in Keith's Union Square Theatre in an act of his own. Sitting on a pony in the middle of the stage he chewed gum, spun a rope, cracked jokes. Later, in the Follies, where he appeared without the pony, he chewed and drawled for 20 minutes his homely, immensely witty comments...