Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Urbana, Ill...
...radio transmitter. One night last week Operator Andrew Young (VR6AY, Pitcairn) talked with Operator Dorothy Hall (W21XY, Queens, L. I.), told her that all ships were avoiding the island because of a false rumor of typhoid epidemic, that Pitcairn was in desperate need of medicines for inhabitants who were ill from other causes...
When three years later all was over-when Insulland came a cropper to the tune of $750,000,000, most of it lost by smalltime investors-the U. S. was ready to elect a New Deal, to whom Samuel Insull and his ill-reputed holding companies were anathema. Even though Insull was eventually acquitted of using the mails to defraud, of embezzlement and of violating the Bankruptcy Act, the emotion generated by the Insull crash made it possible for Franklin Roosevelt to secure from Congress a "death sentence" for utility holding companies...
Except for five-time Champion Walter Hagen, who preferred the sidelines after his recently completed round-the-world exhibition tour, and onetime Champion Tommy Armour, who was ill, all the topflight professional golfers of the U. S. met last week in the Poconos, on the Shawnee Country Club course. It was their one big match-play tournament of the year: the championship of the Professional Golfers Association...
...Ill lay: Idaho's U. S. Senator William Edgar Borah, 73, in Washington, from overwork; famed Physicist Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, † from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza...