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...actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy Roosevelt defended Seton...
...were sure the company's patents (on short cuts in making stainless steel) were an asset if used for steel production, not stock manipulation. They went to work, changed the company's name to Rustless Iron & Steel Corp., slashed capitalization. President until 1936 was Payson, who married Sportsman Payne Whitney's daughter, reared four children. Then Tuttle took over, launched a five-year expansion program...
...known from Wall Street to Hollywood as a tough trader. In 1935, to sell $108,000,000 in bonds, he arrived in Wall Street with a rifle under his arm, was joshed by friends: "Harry's loaded for wolves." The rifle was actually taken along for repair, but Sportsman Bauer sold the bonds for a then record 3¾%- the first bonds to breach the 4% interest level for utilities...
...biggest sporting-goods stores, thought he was selling far too few fishing rods. The commercial fishermen, he argued, were snaring the great silver horde before the fish had a chance to get into Puget Sound or the inland lakes and streams. "Give the salmon back to the sportsman!" he shouted - so loud and so long (and at the right people) that the State Legislature five years ago outlawed commercial salmon traps in Puget Sound.* That boosted the salmon derby Ben Paris had started, with the aid of the Seattle Star, five years before. Other derbies sprang...
...initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which Banker-Sportsman Charles T. Fisher hopes to develop " into the Rockefeller Center of Detrot" To get Saks, Landlord Fisher made a rental deal contingent on the volume of business done. His gamble may turn out to be a prime investment. With 2,500 Detroit charge customers already on his Manhattan books, and with...