Word: manns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Roosevelts, these huntsmen will seek an almost fabulous creature. Like Dr. Mann of the Smithsonian forces, they will try to take the creature alive as well as dead. It is an anachronism from the age of reptiles that they have in mind a lizard that is known to grow to the size of a crocodile, that is, 18 to 21 feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch...
...Smithsonian-Chrysler party was to be led by Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...
...State Department in British East Africa got Britain's permission for an expedition to enter the Tanganyika region. Dr. Mann assembled a large corps of able field naturalists, including Albert J. Loveridge of the Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...
...only after a search from "coast to coast and from north to south,"is leading this pack of "Christians," and I am under the impression that this Edward Young Clarke is the same E. Y. C. who was formerly with the K. K. K., later convicted of violating the Mann Act in Texas, he ran off with the sister of some other villain, and fined $5,000, which he seems to have paid. This same E. Y. C. has also been in various other scrapes in Georgia courts...
...better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death of a young woman riding with an agent in an automobile, extortion of $40 from a Jewish rabbi, criminal assault and assaulting wife. The total number of prohibition enforcement officers convicted after trial...