Word: knapps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Hat Four famed U. S. hat names are Dobbs, Knapp-Felt, Knox, Dunlap. The first two belong to Cavanagh-Dobbs, Inc., a company whose roots run back to 1858 and which boasts of having introduced the first U. S.-made derby in 1860. The other two belong to Knox Hat Co. Inc., founded in 1838 by one Charles Knox. Last week Dobbs-President John Cavanagh announced a merger with Knox Hat. A new holding company, General Hat, will take over both concerns. Although both Dobbs and Knox have been making adjustments in their retail store outlets, General...
...girls for Free For All. Among them: Lilian Bond, whom Oscar's uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...
Harry Bartow Hawes, the chubby Senator from Missouri whose pretty daughter got married last week (see p. 42), wrote a letter last week to Joseph Palmer Knapp of Crowell Publishing Co. In it he stated that he had decided not to be president of Mr. Knapp's newly formed foundation, More Game Birds in America, Inc. Last September he had accepted the position, had agreed to give up his political career, spend his energy increasing U. S. game birds at a salary of $35,000 per year (TIME, Sept. 15). At that time he had understood that the organization...
...drainage, which has dried up the marshy places where ducks feed, is partly responsible for the fact that there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated a plan for farmers to raise wild fowl, use their spare lands for feeding places, collect from hunters who come to their farms to shoot. Each bird will be banded, may be marketed. The selling of hunted wild fowl is now prohibited by all the States...
...test his theory, Mr. Knapp tried raising ducks himself on Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier...