Word: izaak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Izaak Walton League announced itself to be desirous of money offerings from U. S. sportsmen to make up a Christmas present to the elk herds of the Jackson Hole Region, Wyo. The present would be in the form of lands adjacent to Winter Elk Refuge and of an emergency hay fund, to supplement Federal and State appropriations in starvation winters. Said Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey: "And a real present in the spirit of the Christmas season it will...
Herbert C. Hoover: "In Chicago, addressing the Izaak Walton League, I said there are too few fishermen in public life. 'A fisherman,' said I, must be of contemplative mind. . . No one can catch fish in excitement, in anger or in malice. He [the fisherman] is by nature possessed of faith, hope and even optimism...