Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force this year. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, famed zoological member, supported the Emergency Conservation Committee, sent a letter to Mrs. Edge. "Ever since 1923," he wrote, "T. G. Pearson and a majority of the directors of the Audubon Society have been getting away with just the same as bird slaughter in supporting the organized and unorganized game-hogs of North America in their excessive killing privileges...
...court cases in defense of two of the 26 gangsters listed by Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce,* as the city's greatest Public Enemies. On the strength of this list, the September grand jury, under the foremanship of Vice President Gabriel Flournoy Slaughter of American Steel Foundries, had resurrected an ancient vagrancy law. Judge John H. Lyle then issued vagrancy warrants for the arrest thereunder of notorious gangsters...
...SLAUGHTER Langley Field...
...stuck jauntily behind his green hunting hat, he was delighted when he brought down a buck. Not so delighted was he to learn that the Bavarian cabinet of Minister President Dr. Heinrich Held, who has been in office since 1924, had resigned after having failed to effect a higher slaughter tax. The bill would have added $2.000.000 annually to Bavaria's income by imposing a tax on all cattle butchered. There seemed to be little reason to believe that the Socialists could form a cabinet in their allotted ten days...
...eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C. F. Clarkson, chairman of the Game Advisory board of Natal. He urged the adoption of more scientific methods in the control of sleeping sickness. Similar complaints have already been made to South African authorities by Kermit Roosevelt and President Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society...