Word: norbeck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation starting this week will be made by the Banking & Currency Committee, chairmanned by Senator Peter Norbeck, onetime South Dakota well-digger. A stanch believer that short sellers are vicious and their influence destructive, Senator Norbeck went about his new task enthusiastically last week. When asked what effect his inquiry would have on the stock market, he almost yelled...
...past 15 years. Congress has done three important things for U. S. wild life. In 1918 the treaty with Canada establishing regulations for migratory birds was made the law of the land. In 1922 the U. S. Biological Survey was appointed enforcer of this treaty. In 1929 came the Norbeck-Andresen Bill appropriating $8,000,000 for the establishment of migratory bird sanctuaries now under survey...
...made their first report to fellow-Senators. They announced that the U. S. must do more if its animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators were Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut (chairman), Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, Key Pittman of Nevada, Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. After finishing a trip into Midwest and Western States and along the Canadian border, they announced that two more years would be necessary before they could become completely wise about conservation...
...Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, who drills water wells for an occupation and supports the White House only when it means patronage for his state...
...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...