Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar suit last year, by a righteously indignant Miss Frances Moore against one John Thermos of Cicero, Ill. who won $50,000 on an Irish Sweepstakes ticket, was beaten by showing that this "gamble" took place outside of Illinois. Chicago lawyers last week said the odds were on Mrs. Maxwell to take Johnson...
...House Committee on Un-American Activities headed by ham-handed Representative Martin Dies of Texas, after hearings in Washington which revealed it as nothing but an ill-planned, amateurish Red-hunt, last week heard some news of fascist propaganda but soon got back to its Red theme. From the testimony of Joseph B. Matthews, onetime head of the League Against War & Fascism (now League for Peace & Democracy), the Committee learned that "the Communist Party relies heavily upon the carelessness or indifference of thousands of prominent citizens in lending their names for its propaganda purposes. For example, the French newspaper...
When the latest and most successful reincarnation of this popular character last week placed on trial a leader of the most ill-famed U. S. political machine, small wonder that Western Union alone filed 40,000 words to the newspapers of the U. S. on the opening...
...about the eviction of a family of eight for failure to pay $15 a month rent. The conjunction of these news items proved too much for the editorial sense of the St. Louis Star-Times, which published an open letter to the cat informing it that its "visit" was ill-timed. Wrote the Star-Times...
...Biochemist Harold Oliver Wiles of Chicago's Sprague Memorial Institute, M. L. Fisher of the Manteno, Ill. State Hospital and E. W. Schoeffel...