Word: petrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tossed a bombshell into the 1936 election campaign with the announcement that KFI and KECA would not carry President Roosevelt's fireside chats during the campaign unless the stations were paid for the time. Well might Manager Holliway vary from the norm. His boss is the stormy petrel of California broadcasting: Earle Charles Anthony, automobile dealer with a State-wide chain of Packard agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing a network like fellow Automobile-Dealer Don Lee (Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmobile), husky, bushy-browed Broadcaster Anthony...
Quoted at length in yesterday's American, Merwin K. Hart '40, stormy petrel of the Young Conservatives ever since its founding last fall, last night came to the conclusion that "I was framed." According to the officers of the Conservatives, the American told Hart over the telephone at 12.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon that they had "no" signatures to the petition that the American was sponsoring in opposition to the appointment of Granville Hicks as an American History Fellow...
...shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three-man board swiftly passed the case on to the Department of Justice, which held 14 members...
This summer the President and a fellow member of the board were traveling in Munich. The fellow member had received an invitation through the CRIMSON to visit Herr Hanfstaengl, Harvard's stormy petrel of yesteryear...
...race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct...