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...later the U. S. Government could not find enough first-class saddle horses to equip a single cavalry division (4,000 horses). Previously Western horses had deteriorated through large purchases by the British for the Boer War and because of an admixture of homesteaders' draught horses with the sturdier stock taken West by pioneers. All Western horses contain some of the blood of the wild herds descended from the "Twelve Immortals," the dozen horses taken into Mexico by Cortes. Descendants of the "Twelve Immortals" roamed north into Texas and California, from lack of food grew small, rangy, fierce...
...Washington newsman is a sturdier Republican than Correspondent Joslin. Yet his appointment was one of utility, not politics. President Hoover has known him as a hardworking, level-headed writer since the pre-Coolidge days when Joslin used to come periodically to the Department of Commerce to get anonymous "background" on current problems from "The Chief." As a White House contact-man, Secretary Joslin knows how to handle news and people...
Price: $895 up. Oakland's companion, Pontiac, is longer than in 1930, stronger in roof construction. It has rubber-cushioned chassis, larger-rimmed wheels, larger brake drums, a sturdier frame. Price: $665 up. Chevrolet, Ford's chief competition, is now much smarter, has added a few accessories. But Chevrolet's price on its six-cylinder line begins at $475; $20 cheaper than its 1928 four-cylinder...
...conditions." Last week at a Democratic victory dinner in Hartford, Governor-elect Wilbur Lucius Cross of Connecticut, 68, Dean-Emeritus of Yale's Graduate School, attributed his good health during his rigorous campaign to the fact that he was too busy to take a bath. While younger and sturdier associates succumbed to minor ills, said Governor-elect Cross, he never felt better in his life. "When I returned home after a rally it would be too late to bathe and when I arose next morning it would be too late again...
...Austria. Germany has formed special clubs for pedigreed boxers and their owners. Like the mastiff which they resemble, they are terrific fighters, make good watchdogs. They are affectionate, easy to train. A full grown boxer is about the height of a Doberman Pinscher but has a much broader body, sturdier legs...