Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...expeditions often consisted of racing desert animals. The Gobi Desert has a rock floor which in many places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
With 22 other huntsmen, including an oldtime Michigan wolf hunter, Mayor Demarest set out into the snow-covered hills. Breaking up into groups of four or five, the party tramped 15 miles through tangled underbrush, climbed rocky ledges, threaded swamps. They came back that night with one year-old wild dog. Explained Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen: "The dogs made fools of us. They are smarter than wolves. When we retraced our path we found the snow broken with prints. They had been following us. One pad print was more than three inches wide...
Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...
...GRAY WOLF-H. C. Armstrong- Mint on, Balch ($3). Biography of Turkey's Dictator Mustafa Kemal...