Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas, scandalized at the revelations, promised to send investigators to the Ozarks. Said he: "If those hill barons enforce peonage, there are federal statutes to punish them...
Sued for Divorce. Walter Hill, 45, youngest son of the late great Railroader James J. Hill; by Mrs. Mildred Richardson Hill, onetime chorus girl (No, No Nannette); at Livingston, Mont. Grounds: kept secret. When suing him for divorce two years ago she said he was "wild as the Montana scenery...
...Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard...
...Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal...
...when scenes from A. A. Milne's play "Success" are broadcast from stations WBZ and WBZA on Tuesday evening at 10.30 o'clock. A sufficient amount of the dialogue and action will be presented to give listeners the argument of the play and to introduce the principal, characters. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, and R. R. Wallstein '32, are to play the leading roles. The first stage presentation of "Success" will be on December 11 at Brattle Hall...