Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...
FREDERICK B. HILL...
...were German "tourists," all men between 25 and 40. By week's end the Poles estimated there were 7,000 of them. They were housed in the barracks at Langfuhr, northwest of the city, and soon were observed installing machine guns and building fortifications on the Bischofsberg, the hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft had arrived by German ships. In the Danzig shipyards German employers were ordered by the political leaders to dismiss Polish...
...Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works program on a revolving fund basis outside the Budget. This sweeping proposal...
...last September, killing some 600 people, the world's biggest city emerged practically unscathed. Many New Yorkers, safe in their towering apartment buildings, canyon-like streets and skyscrapers, did not even know a hurricane was passing. Last week, however, Meteorologist Charles Franklin Brooks, of Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, pointed out that if a future hurricane happened to hit Manhattan just wrong, not all the brick and asphalt in the city could prevent a terrible disaster...