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...Harrison's seat. "The Man" Bilbo chose between his old and new hatreds, instructed his lieutenants to line up for Conner. Chief Conner campaign cry: "Pat Harrison has got too big for Mississippi and is too busy with work for Roosevelt to take care of his consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political observers concluded that Pat Harrison was considerably perturbed about his coming election fight when they heard a story which angry wildlife conservationists were telling last week. Source of vast alarm to sportsmen and conservationists in recent years has been quail bootlegging, which grew...
After the quail-shooting season closes and before spring plowing begins, people in the South who really know and care about bird dogs turn their attention to the field trials, the series of winter tournaments culminating with the National Championship at Grand Junction, Tenn. There, last week, over the broad acres of Hobart Ames's plantation, the biggest galleries in years plodded after a field of 23 pointers and two setters, run in pairs for heats of three hours each. Weeks of cold and snow had made birds so scarce that, despite ideal weather, for the first time...
Last week a hunting party of three men set out to shoot quail near Greensboro, N. C. They were Samuel Clay Williams, board chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and a onetime NRAdministrator; President William Adger Law of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; A. L. Brooks, a Greensboro lawyer. Walking through a patch of honeysuckle, Hunter Williams tripped. His gun went off. The shot hit Hunter Law, 20 feet away, in the left leg. It took almost two hours to get Hunter Law, 71, to Siler City for first aid. From there he was hurried to Greensboro where...
...State table linen in special cupboards, where she interviews tradesmen; 5) the office of Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, who is really not a servant; 6) the storeroom with shelves full of canned and bottled goods and one corner given over to pheasants, ducks, grouse, woodcock, quail and other game hanging until they become "high" enough for the President's taste (see cut. p. 5); 7) a ''salad room" lined with cupboards and refrigerators and equipped with four chromium chairs around a modernistic table...
...oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical Socialists: "Are you going to fall into the trap which is being laid for you? Are you going to quail before the double pressure of street riots and bank panics? "What has the Government done to assure the defense of our liberties?" roared M. Blum. "There is an open and public conspiracy against our republican institutions! What has the Government done to safeguard them against seditious leagues?" During all this...