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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...