Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fish were found in the Mahoning River in Youngstown last week. It was the first time in 25 years. Chemicals discharged into the Mahoning by the steel mills that line its banks for miles & miles normally kill all living things. Hot from steel mill sewage, the river has not frozen in many a puddler's memory, until this winter...
...Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France...
...WILLIAM MILL BUTLER...
...brother Karl G. Roebling, who, as your piece says, died as a result of the enormous tasks he undertook, both for the Government and his company during the World War period. Col. Washington A. Roebling never was "blind in one eye," nor was he ever regarded either at the mill or among his friends as "a bitter, hard man." Like all Roeblings, he was exceedingly reticent. But he had a fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining old chap I ever heard of. He did contract caisson fever while building the Brooklyn Bridge...
Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...