Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Desperately homesick, sick of the senseless killing and intrigues, George and Alfred concluded bitterly that "things Americans believed in didn't seem to mean anything in this foreign country." Anti-U. S. feeling, open attacks on U. S. troops reached a peak with the refusal of General Graves to...
The Senate: ¶ After killing an anti-Sit-Down rider proposed by South Carolina's Byrnes (see p. 18), passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill; sent it to the House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see...
Having salved their consciences by such objections, virtually the entire contingent of Administration Senators joined in killing the Byrnes' Rider by 48-10-36 - but only after Leader Robinson had promised that a separate Sit-Down resolution would get early consideration.
Half a century ago these great vultures, with bald orange heads and wingspreads up to eleven feet, were common in California. Then ranchers began to push back toward the mountains, spread poisoned carcasses for wolves, foxes, coyotes. Condors gobbled these, also made fine targets for riflemen. In 1910 California passed...
At Hornell, N. Y. last week two seagulls flopped helplessly to earth in the business district, their wings so coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature'...