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By that time humanitarians were thoroughly aroused. In Boston, State Senator George Krapf filed a bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Chase's Front. Mr. Stuart Chase, who has progressed from conservation to semantics to world politics, has digested all the best arguments for isolationism and illustrated them with a new stunt in The New Western Front ($1.50). The Europeans will always fight, he argues, so long as they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wildlife Conference | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

At the Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wildlife Conference | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

As the National Wildlife Federation, now a powerful propaganda agency which claims to represent some 20,000,000 conservationists, met last week in conjunction with the North American Conference, President "Ding" Darling as usual blazed away with both barrels at U. S. bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wildlife Conference | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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