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Since some 600,000 gunners bought the $1 duck stamps which Director Darling issued last year to raise funds for wild fowl conservation, he can count on probably one million duck gunners who, if each killed only a dozen ducks all season, would reduce the visible duck supply by one-half...
...year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid them less than code wages. Both courts decided...
...That job was to go from door to door, ask each New York housewife her origin, nationality, family income, number in family, number of children, number of servants, number of boarders; whether she had bought any poultry in the past seven days; if so, what day, what kind of fowl, what weight, what cost per Ib.; was it slaughtered in New York; was it plucked? He was also supposed to gather data on eggs, but Michael Weintraub said sadly that the door was usually slammed in his face before he got well started on the fowl. He did not know...
...Harvard in the slackening of standards of the Post War period. They demand their ancient and honorable title of "goody." As spokesman for their cause a goody of Kirkland House has come forward, deposed, and stated it as her irrevocable opinion that "biddy" is not a maidservant, but a fowl. "We might have been chickens once," she said, "but we want to be called "goodies...
...American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens and rabbits to the classroom. Said she, "I asked Mr. Armstrong if he thought we were breathing fowl air." Superintendent George T. Fuggle of the Pompey Hollow School District put in a judicious word. The dismissal, Mr. Fuggle felt, was unjustified...