Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RALPH BLAKE THOMAS Chicago, Ill...
...reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
...Have no ill effects on the skin of newborn babes...
Died. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, son of the late Mrs. Harold Le Clair Ickes and the University of California's Historian James Westfall Thompson, her first husband; by his own hand (revolver); in Winnetka, Ill. In Woburn, Mass, the Secretary of the Interior's other foster son, Robert H. Ickes, 23, was acquitted of driving while under the influence of liquor...
...sailing-master for Captain Cook at 22. On Cook's last voyage he acquitted himself well when that great explorer was killed by savages, had gained considerable reputation for his courage and swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each...