Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators feared that this sententious pronouncement was only too true. After hearing it Senator Shipstead went home to bed. Senator Norris had already left Washington for vacation, a very sick man. Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona was seriously ill. Senator King had just recovered from a long sick spell. The health of many another was none too good...
...black eye, Mrs. Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe...
When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
...over to an impressionable young Commissar for safekeeping. The young Commissar falls in love with the Countess, kills himself so she can escape. The Countess and A. J. board a river boat for the border and it looks as though their troubles are ove r until the Countess falls ill. At the border, the American Red Cross enters the proceedings as deus ex machina. Marlene is popped into a sickbed. A. J. dodges one more firing squad, boards her hospital train as it pulls away from Russia...
Died. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, 72, one-time (1897-1901) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, onetime (1909-19) President of New York's National City Bank; after an operation; in Manhattan. Born of poor parents in Aurora, Ill., Banker Vanderlip was first a newspaperman in Aurora and Chicago. While associate editor of the Chicago Economist he was called upon to advise financiers in the panic of 1896. His handling of the panic won him his Treasury Department job. From 1919 to 1924 Banker Vanderlip made repeated trips abroad studying international finance. He predicted a world financial catastrophe unless all countries...