Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long staple cotton duty...
...loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass and South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's George and Washington's Dill joined the hue and cry. For three full days with crowded galleries, the Senate Chamber rumbled and roared with pent-up liberal resentment against judicial conservatism. Always the issue remained larger than Mr. Hughes' appointment...
...this oath meant little to the critics of the Supreme Court. Washington's Senator Dill, who had shouted that Abraham Lincoln would have had no chance of appointment today as Chief Justice because he would be rated a "radical,''* warned that the people would find a method of curbing the Supreme Court if it did not change its ways on economic questions. The Senate was shocked at his passionate use of the word "revolution." Senator Norris predicted that the Hughes appointment would become an issue in the next campaign, called it "Banquo's ghost come back...
Maine. Famed as a maker of wine from grape juice, Senator Arthur Robinson Gould has been extolling temperance, has decided not to risk himself again at the polls for renomination. Senator Gould's candidate: Congressman Wallace Humphrey White Jr. of Lewiston, co-author of the Dill-White Radio Law, of the Jones-White Shipping Law. Opposing Mr. White in the June primary will be insurgent one-time Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, victor in Maine's waterpower referendum last summer (TIME, Sept...
...upon Owen D. Young's chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President of the U. S. in 1932 or 1936. No man of Mr. Young's acumen could have failed to sense the undercurrents of that hearing, with Senators Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Washington trying to embarrass him and Senators Tydings of Maryland and Hawes of Missouri trying to protect him. Perceiving the situation Mr. Young insisted on talking economics, nor did he hesitate to startle the Senators-and many of his conservative business acquaintances-with his frankness, notably his opinion that...