Word: gills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcely wise, if this legion were kept in a clamorous state, to permit it to grow. But that is apparently what Mr. Ely has done. If Mr. Gill can maintain his present rate of acceleration, his goose will become a pretty unwieldy and a pretty lively bird...
Fireworks popped merrily at the Gill hearing yesterday when, incensed with the procedure followed by Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon, Raymond S. Wilkins, counsel for the Norfolk head, charged that the hearing was "very unfair," and that Gill "has not had a full opportunity to answer the allegations...
Shortly after 10 o'clock, when Dillon called the assembly to order, it became apparent that Wilkins was getting angry, and that he was prepared to drop his passivity of the first two days. Dillon stated that the day's work would begin with allegation 17. Wilkins and Gill insisted that number 16, charging the Superintendent with laxity toward drunken prisoners, be continued from the previous day. When Dillon acquiesced, the following interchange took place...
...Gill: Smuggled liquor is common to all prisons...
...minutes later, when Gill attempted to read into the testimony a passage from a book by Sheldon Glueck, Instructor at Harvard in Social Ethics, the following tilt ensued...