Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Partly because he was told in his youth that General John Hunt Morgan, most famed of Confederate cavalry raiders, was a villain, Biographer Swiggett was convinced he was a hero. After long study of the documents in the case, he is not so sure. This biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War will not end the controversy but it does throw some light on another murky corner of U. S. history...
...great brother princes. His people are primitive Dravidians, his realm is small, he pays no tribute and is left pretty much to himself by the British Raj. Dearer to him than his elaborate pedigree, as imaginative as it is long, is his pack of 80 police dogs. Trained to hunt man, the pack has proved a failure at hunting India's leopards and black bucks, a success at frightening the citizens of Athgarh...
...year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last week that Eggs, Inc. was not "busted." It simply wanted to reorganize...
...Army Air Corps, reopened the question of Assistant Secretary Harry Woodring's Army contracts. Senator Pope of Idaho announced that investigators for the Munitions Committee were discovering ''shocking" evidence, which would come out when its public hearings start in September. Representative Dickstein's Nazi hunt and Senator Black's year-old investigation of ocean and air mails were simmering at summer heat. All told, the 3rd Congress had promised its members 23 investigations and provided $655,500 to last until January. Inquisitions afoot...
Zoologist Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology Sc.D...