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...surprised that the American public has ever been cozened into accepting as a candidate for its highest office a man whose record is one of drab mediocrity and whose personal qualifications keep him as far removed from being a presidential possibility as Kansas is removed from the Atlantic seaboard...
Happily endowed with money, brains and background is Dr. Michael Hoke of Atlanta. His father. Robert Frederick Hoke. a Major General in the Confederate Army, prospered during Reconstruction by pushing what is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad through North Carolina to Atlanta. Dr. Hoke's mother was a New York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed...
...greater proportion of 1929 sales was by mail order, today mail orders account for only some 40% of Sears Roebuck's business and more than a third of the stores which are now its cornerstone are situated in the comparatively small but populous area of the northeastern seaboard States...
Three other changes made by the Survey were certainly not calculated to win the Roosevelt Administration votes on the Atlantic seaboard. To the list of protected birds it added Atlantic brant, canvasback and redhead ducks. Daily bag limits for 1936 remain as in 1935 - ten ducks of all species and four geese or brant - with only one day's bag allowed in possession at any time...
Though the U. S. has been a fertile field of observation, Author Peattie lists few U. S. naturalists. John Bartram, Colonial farmer turned collector, roamed the whole Atlantic seaboard for his European customers. Alexander Wilson and Jean-Jacques Audubon were first-rate ornithologists. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, "most widely celebrated unknown man in science," was a brilliant Jack-of-all-sciences. Germany's Goethe was an amateur naturalist whose scientific theories were often ridiculous but almost always fruitful. Author Peattie's biggest hero is an Englishman. Charles Darwin, whose five seasick years aboard H. M. S. Beagle gave...