Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days after Senator Bruce's remarks, Nathaniel B. Dial, South Carolina Democrat, delivered another speech, much the same in tenor.* Now Mr. Dial took office as Senator in 1919, having served three terms in the office of Mayor of Laurens, S. C., his birth place, and having won the esteem of his fellow-townsmen as a lawyer interested in a number of enterprises including banking, glass, cotton goods, cotton seed products and the development of waterpower. But, last summer, when he went back to his state, he was defeated for renomination by Cole Blease, onetime Governor (TIME, Sept...
...rate, a few days later, Mr. Dial rose in the Senate to ask that some corrections be made in his speech...
Finally, Senator Ellison D. Smith, colleague of Mr. Dial, eloquently declared: "I could not believe, when I read the speech, that Nat Dial was the author. He and I come from that little storm-centre of the United States which has given to the nation some of its brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf...
...Dial bowed to the force of Senatorial opinion: "Not having made the speech with any intent to offend anybody, I withdraw it from the record...
...wished to suppress the document. The National Republican, organ of the Republican Party, printed the speech almost in full. It was reported that the Republicans were planning to print and distribute a million copies of the document. The result is likely to be a much greater hearing for Mr. Dial's withdrawn remarks than ever they would have received in the ordinary course of events...