Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...
...Washington Senator Morris of Nebraska, arch critic of what he calls the Power trust, was of course prompt and bitter with his denunciation of Mr. Insull's "disgraceful attitude." Other Senators (Dill, Wheeler) sarcastically thanked Mr. Insull for performing a "public service." Washington waited to see what ef fect the catchy phrase "three mills . . . six cents" might have on the Senatorial inquisition, the great Power Probe, long-sought by the greatest inquisitor of them all, Senator Walsh of Montana. The investigation, started by a Walsh resolution in 1926, into the propagandizing activities and financial structure of public utilities...
...District Court at Wilmington, Del. It charged a nationwide monopoly, asked that Radio, its affiliates and subsidiaries, be disbanded. This action followed closely on a reorganization of Radio under which 51.3% of its stock would be voted by General Electric and Westinghouse, denounced by Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill as a "$6,000,000,000 worldwide trust" (TIME, April...
Wild words preceded the vote. Arizona's Senator Ashurst charged that the Administration was trying to barter judgeships for Parker votes, named Washington's Senator Dill as the recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice...
...electric companies a majority of its stock, and in return received from them patent rights and manufacturing facilities essential to the production of radio sets. Although David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp., called upon President Hoover, presumably in connection with the transaction. and although Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Washington demanded an inquiry by the Department of Justice, the connection between General Electric, Westinghouse and Radio Corp. has long been obvious. The significance of the deal lay in the growth of the General Electric Westinghouse interest into an actual control, and in the future of Radio Corp...