Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General" Rosalie Jones, now the wife of Washington's Senator Dill, led her "army" of 200 feminists to the capital to get the vote...
Napoleon Bonaparte." Napoleon Bonaparte probably never said any such thing. But he might have last week if he had been a U. S. youngster. Word was out that President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President...
...Heard a resolution by Washington's Dill which would prohibit shipment of munitions to China or Japan...
Last month Pathfinder, an inexpensive weekly published in Washington, D. C. concluded a contest to supply the Democrats with a campaign slogan for 1932. Democratic Senators Copeland of New York, Sheppard of Texas and Dill of Washington were announced as the judges. More than 100,000 suggestions were submitted. A first prize of $100 was awarded J. J. Stubbs of Robstown, Tex. for the slogan: "Hee! Haw! We're coming back...
...Clarence C. Dill, wife of the U. S. Senator from Washington, famed 20 years ago as the suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony...