Word: quails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "I just kept in the middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls. In 1920 along came Rev. O. J. Kvale (pronounced Quail) and contested with him for the Republican nomination. He told the electors that Volstead was an atheist. Kvale beat Volstead in the primaries...
...last week they were startled and then they began to laugh again. He had lowered a tariff. He had lowered the duty on live bobwhite quail valued at less than $5.00 a head, from 50 to 25c each. The duty was lowered at the request of the game wardens of several states. There was practically no opposition. It was claimed that the duty of 50c was more than the difference between the cost of producing live bobwhites in the U. S. and in the principal competing country,- Mexico...
...does,the Department of the Interior feel in its boots? Does Secretary Hubert Work quail before the impending procedure? Far from it, if one may judge by his resounding words to the press last week...
...election in Kansas, more than 300,000 children voted and elected the Western Meadowlark (Rep.) the State bird of Kansas. The Meadowlark did not have anything like a majority, but it led the field with 48,395 votes, a plurality over the Quail (Dem.) and the Cardinal Bird (Prog.). The election was conducted by the Audubon Society...
...hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres...