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Word: choptank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 33 U. S. sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank River estate in eastern Maryland, showed himself a good friend of conservation by serving as an Institute director until last spring, contributing substantial sums to its treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Misbehaving Motorman | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...conservationist, and because he knew how natives envied the rich outlanders who have fenced off their best shooting grounds as private preserves, Agent Steele ignored the letters as long as he could. Then one warm morning last December he set out on a "routine patrol" along the Great Choptank, came to a blind which contained Walter P. Chrysler, his estate superintendent, William Pritchett, and ten dead ducks. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chrysler," said Agent Steele when he had finished his examination, "but this is against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Misbehaving Motorman | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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