Word: hill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enterprising Roosevelts, Elliott, in radio, naturally has the oddest messmates. Oddest of these for a Roosevelt to be hobnobbing with is a Chicago adman named Hill Blackett, mainly famous for having guided Alf Landon's campaign in 1936. The Blackett advertising agency, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., does the biggest business in radio: mostly sobby, low-cost network serials plugging household helps, headache remedies, beauty aids, etc. to U. S. housewives...
...largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded Western Pacific and others of his holdings together until he controlled two through routes running from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, had built a line connecting their Pacific terminals, Seattle and San Francisco...
...Crimson poll-takers is assigned a certain street in a typical Boston district and is directed to interview as many residents of the street as possible. While some of the interviewers find themselves working in the South End, others comb through the most exclusive sections of Brookline and Chestnut Hill...
...Committee also voted to award a major H to any member of the cross country team who finishes among the first seven in the Heptagonal or IC4A meets and to award a major H to the first five Harvard men on either a Heptagonal or IC4A championship hill-and-dale squad...
Jaakko Mikkola's varsity cross country team literally carried away team honors in a walk last Friday at New Haven in their annual meet with the Princeton and Yale harriers. The Crimson hill-and-dale runners trounced the Tigers 23 to 43, and the Elis, 20 to 46. Princeton beat Yale...