Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
Additional members of the bureau include I. William Auerback 3L, Morton M. Barbour 3L, Robert S. Berger 3L, Alexander Black, Jr. 3L, Kimball B. deVoy 3L, John Fishwick 2L, Bennet Frankel 2L, Edward T. Gignoux, 2L, James T. Hill, Jr., 2L, William R. Hurlbert...
Across the Sound. Whistling and whining across Long Island Sound, the big wind hit New England with increased fury. (Harvard observatory at Blue Hill, Mass. registered gusts of 186 m. p. h.) At Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that...
...Watch Hill, Westerly and Charlestown, R. I. loss of life was heavy. Scores of people who took refuge in the highest dunes were swept away by mountainous seas which carved a new coastline. Well Rock lighthouse at Point Judith was hammered down. So was Prudence Island lighthouse, killing the tender's wife and son. Charlestown was wiped out. Seven school children were drowned in a bus on Jamestown Island...
...Appointed a new head of the Farm Credit Administration. Accepting "with sincere regret" the resignation of FCA Governor William I. Myers, who is returning to Cornell to teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like...