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...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Yesterday's Garbage | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...American premier of "Dona Rosita" will be presented tonight by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler. Their spring production will be given with special music written by Irving G. Fine and special ballet sequences by Harry Churchill Swill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC-IDLER PLAY TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT | 4/28/1943 | See Source »

...asked to postscript that the boys aren't unanimous in their approval of the "chow," although there are no really serious complaints that no swill is served. (It is sold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QM COMMUNIQUE | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

...horse was only Bergh's first compassion. To arrest inhumane butchers, Bergh sometimes waded ankle-deep in blood through the slaughterhouses, braved barrages of pigs' feet, entrails and cows' livers. Undaunted by flying pails of swill, he invaded the dairies of uptown Manhattan, nauseated milk drinkers with his grisly descriptions of the milking (for public consumption) of ulcerous and dying cows. With police at his back, he broke up bloody dogfights, rat battles, bearbaitings. He hounded the rich who docked their horses' tails. He halted cattle vans and revolted the public with the spectacle of diseased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Humanitarian | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Lady Diana Duff Cooper, daughter of eight Dukes, was patriotically collecting swill for her pigs from door to door in Bognor Regis, Sussex, when she was picked up on three traffic charges. ∽∽ Third wife Sylvia, ex-Lady Ashley got her $3,000 monthly allowance from Douglas Fairbanks' estate continued for six months. Other heirs had claimed this was more than the income on her half-share, for the estate may be much less than the $2,000,000 Doug thought he was leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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