Word: tillman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Carolina's demagogic "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, U.S. Senator and self-appointed farmers' friend, met him with bluster: "You're going against the laws of God. My grandfather's cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
This vivid account of a week with the U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands was written by New York Times Correspondent F. Tillman Durdin, and is reprinted by permission of the Times...
Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...
...presence on the bench of three learned and very live justices, was part of the annual Ames Competition, traditional climax of three years of Law School training. Finalists were the Scott Club, represented by Richardson and McMillen, and the Sayre Club, represented by Alan S. Geismer 3L and Tillman K. Saylor...
...correspondents in Shanghai and elsewhere for their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White, Tillman Durdin, Arch Steele and Hal Abend...