Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced backhouse), 60, old-time British sea dog and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty from 1938 until his retirement last month because of ill health; in London. Fortnight before his death he was made Admiral of the Fleet by King George...
...Chicago, Ill...
Louisiana's new Governor Earl Kemp Long last week began to make sounds reminiscent of his brother, the late great Huey. To make a show of cleaning up the mess left by his predecessor, ill and thinning (260 to 242 Ibs.) Richard Webster Leche, Earl Long ordered certain Louisiana officials to stop selling materials to the State through companies they control; abolished the State Publicity Bureau (most of whose ten employes were contributors to the weekly Louisiana Progress which ex-Governor Leche sold before he resigned); announced that from now on nobody had to subscribe to or advertise...
That evening the Times read the A. P. report a little more carefully than its rival, informed its 359,844 readers that Mr. Dieter had been nominated for Naperville, Ill. (pop. 5,118), "perhaps 30 ... miles from here." The Times had even called him up. "Dieter answered the telephone," reported the Times, "and revealed without hesitation that he is Edward M. Dieter, 70, pharmacist and postmaster of Naperville. . . . That's all there was to it, Tribune. Anybody could have done...
...William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...