Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John R. Junkin, a sand & gravel dealer from Natchez, told the committee he had poured the concrete for the Dream House swimming pool, but had marked the $1,194.70 bill paid before he mailed it. Contractor M. T. Reed had contributed $3,500 to the Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...
...many a man, as for a tanned National Park Ranger named Bill Butler, it would be a rare day of rest, warmth and comfort. The odds had favored Bill Butler's spending Christmas high on glacier-scarred Mount Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle...
Another grandiose Social Credit idea turned out last week to be bankrupt. In Alberta's Supreme Court, Chief Justice Horace Harvey and his four colleagues ruled that Premier Ernest Charles Manning's sweeping "Bill of Rights" was unconstitutional. The court's reason: Alberta's brand of Social Credit would infringe on Dominion control of banking...
Died. William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, 63, onetime "king of the bootleggers," who in Prohibition days commanded a fleet of 20 rum-runners, controlled the entry of liquor into New York Harbor; of a heart attack; in Belle Harbor, Queens. After spending "a little vacation" in Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary (he was convicted of bootlegging in 1926), he tried to rebuild his crumbled fortune through sports promoting, bought the N.Y. Americans hockey team, introduced professional hockey to Manhattan, headed Miami's famed Gables Racing Association...