Word: apiarist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
...hours, moving cautiously lest he release the bee-maddening smell of a squashed bee, he herded most of the insects back into their hive. Later he returned with a smoke gun and vacuum sweeper to clean up. About 5,000 bees died in the process. From his body Apiarist Van de Poele, who suffered not so much as a swelling, calmly removed some 300 stingers...
...slashed back Senator Glass, "I think they might be. ... I am not facetious about it; I am serious about it. I do not want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing...
...Philadelphia Apiarist Joseph Rexer was arraigned in court, charged with keeping "vicious" bees. The plaintiff exhibited 1,000 dead snapdragons. Ruled the judge: "The courts are not prepared to hold that bees are generally vicious. ... It will be necessary for the plaintiff to show that particular bees were generally vicious...