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...charged that John B. Burnham, President of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, had influenced the Department of Agriculture to refuse reductions in hunting privileges "widely demanded in the interest of the preservation of game." He argued that most of the income of the Game Protective Association comes from arms and munitions manufacturers, who had influenced Mr. Burnham, head of an advisory committee to the Government, to object to reduction of the bag limit and the length of the open season. He declared that he (Hornaday) and other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while...
...course Mr. Burnham and Dr. Nelson did not remain silent. Said Mr. Burnham...
...weekly audience of 20,000,000, while less than 5% of the films shown are British, the remainder being mainly American. An inquiry into the film trade was demanded, it being charged that many of the present productions were inferior, unpatriotic, psychologically unhealthy. The memorandum was signed by Lords Burnham, Carson, Dawson, Newton, Riddell; Robert Bridges, poet; Thomas Hardy, novelist; J. R. Clynes, Sir Sidney Lee, Gordon Selfridge, department store man; Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...complete line-up. Among the men whom the Harvard-Yale forces will have most to fear in the meet are Porritt, the sensational New Zealand sprinter who last year broke the 100-yard record in the English dual meet and captured second in both the hurdle events, Lord Burnham, who holds a 12-foot pole vaulting record, and Lowe, the English captain and star hurdler...
...Raymond Wagner, Chairman, Miss Nancy Grier; Ruckman Grier, Miss Anita Ward; G. W. Huth, Miss L. M. Everson; Curthis Thomas, Miss Eleanor Wells; Mannix Walker, Miss Sylvia Shippen; Robert Davis, Miss Frances Burnham...