Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Counter Challenge...
...more so. Editor Raymond Prunty ("Ray") Holland of Field & Stream argued that if a duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds in America Foundation for a 1¢ shell tax (TIME, March 28). Before the groups could agree on any measure Congress had adjourned. Meanwhile the American Game Association had sent observers to the breeding grounds, had received reports that conditions were good for a large...
...erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup by his political enemies. That night Commander Waters' driver reported that the official car had been fired upon...
...John Simon, usually urbane, emerged livid with rage from the rooms of conference with President Arthur Henderson, who favors full & free debate. But Sir John was not beaten. Twenty-four hours later Geneva heard: 1) that Great Britain would make counter proposals; 2) that the Hoover naval proposals would receive their first serious consideration at a meeting of the Big Five Naval Powers, Great Britain, U. S., Japan, France, and Italy...
Toward Monday evening the reason for his return had become more apparent. In the week-end uncertainty, Central Republic's stock, unlisted, had slipped badly on over-the-counter quotations?from 46 to 2. Talk of liquidation was in the air. Late in the evening Banker Dawes issued a statement. Said...