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Cruelty. In Omaha, a young woman sued for divorce because her husband, a stockyard worker, refused to take baths. "Sometimes," she testified, "it's two or three weeks between baths." "That's cruelty," ruled the judge, granting the decree...
...today, Chamizal still finds it hard to live up to the valuation of $50,000,000 arbitrators set on it 34 years ago. In it stand the new $165,000 Bowie High School and a new U. S. Customs House, but more prominently a red-light district, a small stockyard and any number of ratty firetrap tenements. To Deputy Pérez' oratory, the reaction of city-proud El Pasoans was: "Wish to hell they would give it to Mexico...
...case for a freely competitive, economic order and the system of government based upon it. Underlying these two themes was another-his denial of the doctrine of class struggle in America, a denial that he preached in terms of his own career, and which he dramatized by talking to stockyard workers who listened silently, Tacoma factory workers who listened thoughtfully, Michigan automobile workers who greeted him with boos...
Wendell Willkie was in Chicago next day. A cavalcade of 30 autos took him to the Union Stock Yards. In the stockyard stench he talked with fervid earnestness. His audience, some in bloodied aprons, listened with polite interest, few cheers...
...Commission ' about the way he ran his business. For five hours, Judson squirmed and squinted through the cigar smoke and a rain of questions. When the air was clear again, spectators had learned that U. S. music was organized and run as unromantically as any chain store, or stockyard...