Oh BROTHER. Nice try, Duke researcher. The baby contests weren't a eugenics conspiracy: the mothers couldn't care less about eugenics, or the governments listed measurements and standards at the time. Baby contests were huge. Fattest baby, cutest baby, all were big deals. Usually the fattest baby would win, passers-by would tell mothers "That's a mighty fine fat baby you have there, ma'am.." with a tip of the hat. My mother, in the '40s won The Most Beautiful Baby contest held in Los Angeles.

If the reader is looking for some eugenics conspiracies, I would start with one that is on-going today, the Human Genome Project/Manhattan Project scheme: http://www.channelingreality.com/Genome/nazi_germany_rerun.htm