Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never accepted payment, not even expense money. He asks for and usually receives the weapon with which the crime (when murder) was committed. The arsenal in his home is imposing. His most publicized and helpful service: tying the noose on Charlie Birger, Southern Illinois gangster, murderer, executed at Benton, Ill. in the spring of 1928.* . . . A very charming gentleman, Mr. Hanna receives hospitably callers who come morbidly curious, go away disappointed, delighted, mystified...
AUBREY STARKE Centralia, Ill...
...GETZ Moline, Ill...
Governor General Frank Murphy lay ill at Wnite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate was in Manhattan. Acting Governor General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years...
...noticed yesterday that it took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy in two small suites-and having a jolly good time...