Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Seville, a group of particularly resolute Communists, wearing Red arm bands with the hammer & sickle, with the holsters of pistols peeping from their pockets, escorted through the streets the life-size figure of the Virgin Mary belonging to their district. "We don't trust those Fascist swine!" explained one of these Reds. "They pretend to be good Catholics but we are sure they don't harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time, and you can be sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking dogs...
...Roosevelt made them a practical little speech assuring them that he would do his best to have modified the quarantine restriction which keeps Argentine meat out of the U. S.* By way of gratitude for this friendliness, the Argentine Co-Operative of Meat Producers sent the carcasses of six swine and six lambs, also six beef tenderloins and a choice assortment of veal kidneys down to the Indianapolis as a parting gift...
Animals In 1918 and 1919, millions of men, women and children died from a worldwide epidemic of influenza. During the same period many U. S. pigs also died from an epidemic of a disease which duplicated all the symptoms of influenza in human beings. Stricken swine developed low fever, cough, bronchopneumonia. Last week the Rockefeller Institute's experts, Drs. Richard Edwin Shope & Thomas Francis Jr. declared, in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that their researches prove "that swine were originally infected with influenza from man in 1918." Human flu has weakened since 1918, pig flu continues unabated...
...latest news about swine...
...Texas Centennial Ail-American Swine Show in Dallas last week a Poland China sow named Royal Lady farrowed eleven shoats between noon and 2 p. m., entered the show ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...