Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurgents, led by Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite, had stated their objections in a letter and pamphlet circulated among members. When the meeting began, Dr. William Temple Hornaday, on the side of the insurgents, read a series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit...
...Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon...
...gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties. These charges, to which President Pearson turned an indifferent ear, are the direct cause of the present...
Eight publications on Dartmouth College will be exhibited today and tomorrow in the Treasure room at Widener Library. Among the eight exhibits is an old pamphlet containing an oration delivered by Daniel Webster at the Twenty Fourth Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1800. Another pamphlet written by Eleazor Wheelock describing activities at the college when it was an Indian charity school is in the exhibition. Other publications on display are two volumes of the first issues of "The Dartmouth" and a copy of "The Famous Dartmouth College Case...
...Irish, and always resented it if others thought him so. Though he had been born in Ireland, he had been a member of the English gentry planted there to rule it." He never regarded himself as primarily a writer. He published only one piece in his life (the pamphlet Proposal for the Extension of Religion) signed with his own name. Though a minister of the Church of England, Swift was born, says Van Doren, with a genius for hate. "Hatred was native to Swift, as love was to St. Francis. If Swift has been more frequently misunderstood than St. Francis...