Word: izaak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...
...knowing that his 96 helped his Waltham Gun Club to win the Great Eastern team championship with 466, but most of the skeeters at Lordship last week felt a little less chipper about their scores when the results of the National Telegraphic Championship began to come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs of Utica had tied...
...September (TIME, Sept. 28). Stanford's five-week Fish Course will be part of the physical education program, promises "results but not fish. Students will be taught fly and bait casting. They will learn to tie flies and repair rods. But fish, no. We would not even guarantee Izaak Walton fish, could he be here to take the course...
Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover...
...Last week appeared President Hoover's first book since entering the White House. Its title: A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes. Shrewdly the Huntington Press of Manhattan had obtained the publishing rights to two of the President's old addresses-one to the Izaak Walton League of America, the other to the citizens of Virginia at Madison courthouse (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929)- and brought them out in a limited edition (990 copies) with a foreword by Hoover Administrative Assistant James French Strother. Price: $7. Theme of each speech: less time between bites...