Word: fished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million...
...Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
...keynote, speakers warned conservationists not to relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters...
...represent some 20,000,000 conservationists, met last week in conjunction with the North American Conference, President "Ding" Darling as usual blazed away with both barrels at U. S. bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright "enemies of conservation." Of the Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand...
...short, sharply chiseled chapters, some of which are little essays on autocracy, some of which are so rhetorical that they scan even in translation, The Age of the Fish warns that the world is floating into cold times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as rigid as the face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies...