Word: auduboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost every school child knows the Audubon Societies, has given 10? to become a junior member and receive a button with a bird on it. The Audubon State Societies, founded in 1886 by Forest & Stream (monthly magazine), were united into a national organization 29 years ago by the late William Butcher, first president. Under his guidance until 1910, the societies became the strongest, most respected conservation power in the U. S. Therefore when accusations and complaints were heard last week coming from members of the old bird-loving society itself, observers were surprised. The dissenters demanded that the organization have...
...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies...
Ninth oldest magazine in the U. S., forerunner of all other U. S. sporting magazines, Forest and Stream was founded in 1873 by the late Charles Hallock. It was dedicated to the conservation of wild life, induced the birth of the National Association of Audubon Societies, sponsored the National Park Movement, the U. S.-Canada treaty on migratory birds, lately the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Bill in Congress. For 35 years George Bird Grinnell, naturalist-author, was editor. Famed contributors included Theodore Roosevelt, James Alexander Henshall, Martin Elmer Johnson, James L. Clarke...
...lifetime all other Roosevelts were lost in it. During his lifetime, however, Theodore Roosevelt was ever conscious of one of these obscured Roosevelts, a cousin and friend, and his financial adviser. The public learned of this other Roosevelt in 1923 when he gave to the National Association of Audubon Societies a bird sanctuary to surround the grave of the late President. He was heard of again last week when Death found him peacefully asleep in his Manhattan home. He was William Emlen Roosevelt, 73, head of Roosevelt & Sons, Manhattan bankers...
...week (Feb. 9-22) campaign for funds will be directed by Herbert H. Blizzard of Audubon, N. J., active American Legionary, prime proponent of the Chapel scheme. Estimated requirement: $150,000. Let donors address: Bayard R. Kraft, 525 Cooper St., Camden...