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...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...
Died. Dr. John Dill Robertson, 60, for seven years Chicago's health commissioner under Mayor William Hale Thompson and later his bitter foe in the 1927 mayoralty election; of angina pectoris; at Fontana...
...pays to be a Republican," declared Senator Dill. "They get their money back...
Next day to drive home his point Senator Dill named 24 men who he said gave the G. 0. P. $477,000 in 1928 and got back from the Treasury, either individually or through their corporations, tax refunds totalling $114,655,279. Though Senator Dill would have great difficulty in proving any connection between these funds and refunds, his charge was prime political ammunition. Large contributions and refunds listed among the 24: Jeremiah Milbank $25,000 and $891,443; the Brothers Van Sweringen $65,000 and $353,364; the Rockefellers, father and son $50,000 and $8,545,309; William...