Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounce him for his absence from this House!" cried Mottistone of Mottistone. "And I say it is wrong that this man can control great organs of public opinion and circulate to millions of people his wild statements...
Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries this week turned their walls over to able 47-year-old Russell Cowles. Interesting, salable, the canvases on view varied in style from Cezannesque still lifes and New Mexican street scenes and landscapes to wild abstractions and such extreme experiments as Artist Cowles' self-portrait in a bathtub...
...duckhunters laid away their guns and decoys last fortnight all of them agreed that it had been the worst season on record. From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so. Everyone knew the reasons-drought, a hard winter, the disappearance of eel grass, overshooting. Not so easy was the remedy...
...annual conference of the American Game Association. Prime question before the Conference was: should there be a closed season on ducks in 1935- 36? Ruddy-faced sportsmen argued it up & down meeting halls, corridors, bedrooms. Then a man who probably knows and cares more about conserving U. S. wild life than any other in the land stood up to tell the Conference what was what. Snapped famed Jay N. ("Ding") Darling, who left his highly-paid cartooning to become the Bureau of Biological Survey's $6,800-a-year chief...
...realize that in all the millions of government expenditures during these last three years not one thin dime was appropriated specifically for wild life restoration. That the only money actually available now has to be sucked through a straw from someone else's barrel...