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...also of the Washington Post), won an agreement from Hearst to stay out of Cincinnati for at least three years. Thus, when the Commercial Tribune lost even its political prestige at last month's election, Publisher McLean could cut it loose. The morning field was well "in the bag." * The Commercial Tribune was sometimes called "second oldest newspaper in the Northwest Territory," the Chillicothe Scioto Gazette, the oldest. Actually both are deviously descended from the Centenil [sic] of the Northwest Territory, founded 1793. Most famed editor of the Commercial Tribune was Murat Halstead, holding office...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...pamphlet circulated among members. When the meeting began, Dr. William Temple Hornaday, on the side of the insurgents, read a series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit of eight weeks for the open season on wildfowl...
...attacked administration retorted quickly to Dr. Horriaday's suggestions. They said they had always upheld all of his resolutions except the McNary-Haugen bill. They were against this bill because they felt that the Biological Survey which now sets bag limits was i.e better position than Congress to know what was best for U. S. birds. The Biological Survey has a staff of scientists who do nothing but study bird conditions...
...trial flight Capt. Heinen had landed his blimp in 46 sec. He was planning to make the gondola detachable from the bag, for operation on earth as an automobile. At the end of the flying season, the owner might deflate the bag, store it in his garage...