Word: hornaday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...
Last week forceful Dr. William Temple Hornaday, retired founder-director of New York City's Bronx Zoo and long Chief Taxidermist to the U. S. National Museum, writing on the stationery of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, criticized the new regulations as follows: "It is a pity to reduce those open seasons by halves, when it would have been both easy and safe to have adopted our recommendation of eight weeks instead of 12 or 14 weeks. We think that the duck-hunters of the United States now are so thoroughly scared (and with mighty good reason!) that they...
...Hornaday also viewed with renewed alarm a rival organization which does not want to limit or scare duckhunters, believing that commercialization of hunting rights and game will cause farmers to breed game birds sufficient to stock the country (TIME, Nov. 24). His letter said: "We have been watching the 'More Game Foundation' with . . . some anxiety. . . . And we must say that the first real action of the new group has gone far beyond our fears. The Foundation has caused to be introduced into the New Jersey legislature a bill ... to legalize game breeding in preserves, and game shooting and sale...
...insurgents, led by Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite, had stated their objections in a letter and pamphlet circulated among members. When the meeting began, Dr. William Temple Hornaday, on the side of the insurgents, read a series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit...
...refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds. Most biting criticism came in regard to Dr. Pearson's Bulletin No. 6 which was circulated among members requesting them to oppose the 15-bird Federal limit on wild ducks which went into force this year. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, famed zoological member, supported the Emergency Conservation Committee, sent a letter to Mrs. Edge. "Ever since 1923," he wrote, "T. G. Pearson and a majority of the directors of the Audubon Society have been getting away with just the same as bird slaughter in supporting the organized and unorganized game...