Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Ill...
...admittedly undersized amount for levees and spillways from Cape Girardeau, Mo., (near Cairo, Ill.) to Head of the Passes (Baton Rouge...
...When Mr. Hoover dictated this meaningless epistle he was evidently as irritable and belligerent as Thrasymachus was when, because of his inability to answer questions propounded by Socrates, he ill-naturedly accused the great philosopher of having 'a stuffed nose' and of not having used his handkerchief as frequently as decency demanded. [Laughter...
...weekly statement showing the financial condition of New York member banks; showing, among other things, whether their reserves are above or below legal requirements. Last week it quit giving out statements, ostensibly because the Federal Reserve Bank's reports had made them superfluous. But loud was the clamor. Ill-concealed was the suspicion of many a Wall Streeter that the suppression of the Clearing House statements was prompted by a desire to conceal the banks' lack of sufficient reserves and hence to give a false sense of security to the speculative element of the financial community. Indeed...
...killer of the deer was Chief of Police H. M. Haight of Park Ridge, Ill. (suburb of Chicago). He took it to a butcher, had it dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot...