Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...What is the value of a picture?" asks he dramatically. "Is it $50, or $5,000? I don't know. . . . The important thing is that John Marin has got to live. The butcher has got to be paid. The record price for a Marin last year was $6,500. On the other hand I let a working girl have one, a good one too, who could only afford $100. I want to know who the buyer is, what he can afford to pay and where he lives, for the home a picture is going to is important. You know...
...leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each year. His girl there was a beautiful redhead who was supposed to have descended from pirate stock. She eloped with a butcher...
...every school child knows the Audubon Societies, has given 10? to become a junior member and receive a button with a bird on it. The Audubon State Societies, founded in 1886 by Forest & Stream (monthly magazine), were united into a national organization 29 years ago by the late William Butcher, first president. Under his guidance until 1910, the societies became the strongest, most respected conservation power in the U. S. Therefore when accusations and complaints were heard last week coming from members of the old bird-loving society itself, observers were surprised. The dissenters demanded that the organization have...
...meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges, favored instead the establishment of interchangeable refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds. Most biting...
Died. Don Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler y Nicolau, Captain-General of the Spanish Army, Duque de Rubi y Grande de Espana, 92; of infirmities resulting from a fall from his horse last month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just...