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...years ago a shy, white-thatched little man with drooping mustaches and a twinkle in his eye went to Chicago to exhibit his best beef cattle in the International Life Stock Exposition. His Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising...
Cooper & Robins. Host at the banquet was genial Soviet-famed Engineer Col. Hugh L. Cooper as president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Guests paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia...
...Africa. He is proudest of his new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many a year of experiments. It is a cross of Indian Brahma cattle, which are resistant to the tropical heat and diseases of southern Texas, and pure-bred shorthorns, one of the great English beef breeds. The result is a fat, sleek dark-red cow, both hardy and marketable...
Austrian Jew, Lawyer Kresel had been an assistant to Crusader William Travers Jerome, a special Federal Attorney in the post-War "Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank...
Friday evening. Our radio batteryless because I can't afford new ones. The wife tired from a trying day with the youngsters. I tell her to sit down and rest and I'll get supper. Decide on eggs scrambled with chipped beef and chopped celery. Light the oil stove and put double boiler on to heat. Twenty minutes to six already. Our time is two hours behind Eastern Standard. Eggs mixed, celery chopped, beef shredded, ready for cooking. Light oil lamp, set table, put on bread, preserves, butter, milk, catsup, sugar and cream. Put two tablespoons coffee (think...