Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building for the new school, provided for in Mr. Littauer's $2,000,000 gift, will be completed sometime in 1938. The location is not definite yet. Temporary headquarters will be in Hunt Hall...
...Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will have this problem to deal with...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...
When the cruel glee of his acquaintances had subsided sufficiently to let him go out and about once more, Broker Burton, who had been ordered by the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association to turn in his amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing...
...time he wrote a column, Trifles & Baubles. His one & only novel, The Tragic Hunt, appeared in 33 installments, was so complicated that most readers lost the thread of the plot. He signed his stuff by many a pseudonym, usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily...