Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them...
Thus was launched the first annual Duck Hunters' Dinner of the American Wildlife Institute. Founded by 33 sportsmen in 1935 to help Government and private conservation agencies preserve and restore the nation's wildlife, the Institute has had backing from arms, sporting goods, automobile and other manufacturers interested in preserving the $500,000,000 business of U. S. hunting & fishing. Its chief accomplishment to date, financed by a $150,000 Remington Arms donation, has been initiation of game breeding research projects in nine agricultural colleges...
Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
...spent a month duck-hunting along the shores of Maryland, while in his time off from the ducks has been spending ten hour sessions with the movies of the football games. One trip was made to Cambridge for the Harvard Club dinner and one to New York during the month where he attended the Football Coaches Meeting...
...believes caps it, George Norris had to wait until after he was 70. Not until 1932 when he had been nearly 20 years in the Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers to join unions. Next year followed TVA, to insure Government operation of Muscle Shoals...