Word: dillingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the divorce trial in Chicago of Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling (playing to a packed gallery of 250 spectators) four fights broke out in the mob that couldn't get into the court room; bailiffs were unable to squeeze their way out to disperse the mob; Mrs...
Chicago's Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling sued her husband Albert, his lawyer and Walter Winchell for $1,000,000 damages. Grounds: Albert, in bringing a countersuit for divorce, had made charges against her which he later withdrew, but not before Winchell had broadcast them.
No pushover is Harold Rugg. An indefatigable talker, he stumped the nation, confronting his enemies at school-board hearings, Rotary luncheons, parent-teacher meetings. He found people everywhere, he says, talking about Rugg. Professor Rugg reports off-the-record tete-a-tetes with his critics (whom he usually managed to...
The Lend-Lease opponents, ready for glorious martyrdom, with headlines and pictures, knew the bill would pass without substantial amendment. Yet they hammered nightly on the radio, appealing to U. S. mothers to write their Congressmen, protesting against the bill. Some mothers did. The group known as the "Mothers'...
Leading a Mothers' Crusade, into Capitol corridors stamped Mrs. Elizabeth Billing, calling for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Pepper is a coward," screeched Mrs. Dilling. "He's just an old scaredy-cat and won't talk to us. How much is he getting to sell this...