Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sportsmen who last week examined the new $1 Federal Duck Stamp, which every U. S. duckhunter must henceforth paste on his hunting license, recognized a familiar touch. About the size of a special delivery stamp, it showed a male and female mallard coming to rest on some marshland. It was drawn by one of the nation's best cartoonists and its first anseriformiphile, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who last March became chief of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey (TIME, March 26). Postoffice officials expect it to become a collectors' item...
Perhaps prophetically, the stamp ducks look a little plumper than the ones which "Ding" used to put in his conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
Conservationists expect the stamps to yield between $600,000 and $1,000,000 yearly for use in buying submarginal farm lands, turning them into duck refuges. Already appropriated for that purpose are $8,500,000 of Federal relief funds...
...jobs. In Father Cooper's creed the children owed their parents support in their old age. But the children, it appeared, did not feel that way about it. Instead of vying with each other for the privilege of putting up their parents, they all did their best to duck the job. Eldest Son George, to cap his father's and mother's humiliation, stated the children's case in blunt language. None of them was well off, none really had room in his home or time in his life for two superannuated grasshoppers...
Farmer-Labor's blatant Governor Olson, who talks more radically then he acts, easily won renomination with approximately 75,000 more votes than he polled in 1932's primary. Farmer-Labor's softspoken, duck-hunting dentist, Senator Henrik Shipstead, was seeking renomination against Representative Francis ("Only Ex-Convict In Congress") Shoemaker. While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick...