Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your excellent article appearing in today's issue (May 22) refers to his golf game. One day I was taking a shower following a game over the Druid Hill's Course in Atlanta and "Brother Gene" sauntered in after a very distressing round in the high go's, but typical of his rebound from distress, he turned on his shower and with that wonderful smile of his, said, "Well-there's one thing certain-I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
...Federal Reserve had no money to lend them but perhaps the R. F. C. had. Around taxied the four mayors to inter view R. F. C. Chairman Jones. No. R. F. C. had nothing for them either but they might take their appeal to Congress. Up Capitol Hill they chugged, there called on Speaker Rainey and Vice President Garner. Yes, Congress was very busy and, without the President's recommendation it was unlikely that anything could be done but they could present their case to the Senate Finance Committee. They did, without encouragement. Before starting for Boston, Mayor Curley...
Meantime, from the hill rebellion in eastern Cuba began to come names of leaders. One was Colonel Juan Bias Hernandez whose name showed brightly on Ortiz' posters offering $500 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Airplanes had failed to spot Hernandez' hill hideout. His mounted band knifed swiftly again & again at government troops, ripped off a few and swerved back into the hills. Last week he challenged them, "Come...
...would be expected, were the Hearst newshounds. To the Hearst Press the House of Morgan is the "Plunderbund," the quintessence of all that Hearst has taught "People Who Think" to regard as wicked. Not only regular newshawks but Hearst financial editors and feature writers like Damon Runyon and Ed Hill (see p. 40) were sent to Washington. The New York Journal shrieked: REVEAL MORGAN RULES INDUSTRY. In a page-wide strip of Morgan pictures in the Journal the banker's mustache was obviously painted out to give him a long, flaccid upper lip and Capone-like mien. Editorially Hearst...
...Eastern newsmen have known for two decades who Ed Hill is. So have readers of the New York Sim, for which Ed Hill was long an ace newshawk. But that was the horizon of his fame until two years ago when Radio discovered him, made him a "news commentator." Then. as in the case of Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Ed Hill became a Name (Edwin C. Hill to radio audiences). His deep timbred voice, easy delivery, intelligent interpretation of the day's news won him a tremendous following. His sentimentality was sufficient to endear him to the radio masses...