Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprise Ending. First visit of Sergeant Jurney and his entourage was to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Hopson Lawyer William A. Hill. There was no answer to their knock and the manager opened the room to prove it empty. As they left the hotel a newshawk spotted Mr. Hill telephoning in a booth. In full cry the pack swept across the lobby, carrying curious bystanders with them. The embarrassed lawyer retreated into the bar, where he accepted a contempt citation from Mr. Jurney, said he did not know where his client was but when they met would tell him that...
Died. Charles Stanley Mitchell. 53. board chairman of the $175,000,000 Bank of United States when it closed in 1930; of heart disease, at High Hill, L. I. Indicted with other officers of the bank, he turned State's witness, helped send them to Sing Sing for misapplication of the bank's funds...
...best news from Capitol Hill in many days" was what President Roosevelt said when he heard last week that Congress had finally polished off and approved the Social Security Bill. Only one major change had been made in the measure in conference: killed was Senator Clark's amendment to permit companies with private pension systems to retain them instead of contributing to the Government's system. A fight over the deletion was averted by a gentlemen's agreement that the subject of private pensions would be studied with a view to amending the bill later...
...Akron, Ohio, last week Radio Announcer Graham McNamee received nothing worse than a bad bump on the head when a soap box mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
...also state that Miss Hill's researches ''quieted the suspicions' of mercurochrome's usefulness. A reading of the editorial in the same issue of the A. M. A. Journal might have convinced you otherwise. That, which is in the nature of a survey of the clinical literature on the subject, indicates that other experimentations have been definitely less favorable towards mercurochrome's value, and that Miss Hill's procedure was not flawless...