07/12/1949
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"There you have the story of the cow who met an ignominious end, and still owes 70 cents on her freight."
"Such talk is downright silly."
"And when you don't go to the polls, and you get bad government, you have nobody to blame for it but yourselves."
"But a lot of us older people do, and I don't think it's something the country can afford to forget."