Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christian M. Tauritzen, Stoughton 22, Chicago Latin School, Chicago, Ill.; Douglas Mercer, Wigglesworth A-31, Belmont Hill, Brookline; Walter Ridder, Straus B-31, Portsmouth Priory School, New York City; Phil Neal, Grays 33, Oak Park and River Forest High, Oak Park, Ill.; Herbert Scheinberg, Matthews 21, De Witt Clinton High School, New York City...
Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
That is one way of rating John Milton ("100%") Nichols, president of Chicago's First National Bank of Englewood, and that was the way of one Lilian Cousins in a gushing article last year in the Carpentersville (Ill.) Fox Valley Mirror.* Another way appeared a few years ago in a banker- written letter to the American Banker: "Mr. Nichols isn't a banker and what he has in Englewood is not a bank. It is a cash register." Whatever John Milton Nichols may be, he has set something of a record for financial exhibitionism in the past three...
...offspring, reads French and H. G. Wells's The Out line of History and recalls vividly the death of her mother in 1839, her work as a nurse in the Civil War, and the hard ships in Scotland for the generation "just following the Industrial Revolution of George Ill's reign." To one who had lived through so many wars, talk of the problem of the younger generation seemed foolish. "Death had flown in flocks through Gregrannie. She knew its sounds and stinks. The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the World War, had taken...
...social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief, all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust", were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to Tugwell...