Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette of Wisconsin proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle Shoals over to Alabama and Tennessee. A bill by Senator Dill of Washington would equip the Senate chamber for radio broadcasting...
...Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that the next Democratic nominee must be as Wet as he is. While Governor Roosevelt was last week getting the backing of Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, Mayor Cermak of Chicago was in New York hobnobbing with Tammany leaders and Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, presumably developing a tri-State Wet Democratic alliance...
Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott asked Chief William O. Freeman of the Evanston police to evict Gangster Capone & party.* Chief Freeman said they had tickets, were committing no offense. He did not see how it could be done. The student booing continued, however, and at the end of the third quarter Capone & henchmen left. A crowd of 400 followed him out. A band of Boy Scouts gamboled about him shouting...
...Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, chief of the city's "Secret Six" (antigang organization), told students & faculty of Northwestern University: "I Could have any man I designated killed for $200 or $300. I could have President Scott [Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern] put on the spot but it would probably cost a few hundred dol lars extra...
Director Homer Ray Dill of the Uni versity of Iowa Museum, who originated college courses of taxidermy and museum work, several years ago conceived the idea of restoring a dodo in the round, as a tour de force in taxidermy (see cut). His dodo with its relatively short wings, its chunky body and its tufted tail looks like a monstrously big duckling with a gull's bill. Actually the dodo, despite its looks, was a kind of pigeon...