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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...
...action on his resolution. Two days later the Privileges & Elections Committee unanimously reported it out and, a day after, the Senate unanimously adopted it. Vice President Curtis promptly named a special investigating committee of five Senators: California's Johnson, Maryland's Goldsborough, Missouri's Patterson (Republicans), and Washington's Dill, New York's Wagner (Democrats). To finance the inquiry into 35 senatorial campaigns the Senate allowed $100,000. The committee was almost immediately rendered headless by the resignation of Senator Johnson as chairman. His official excuse: "My time is so wholly occupied with my duties that it is utterly impossible...
...date secondary auditorium, red and brown and coppery, seating 900. where many Chicagoans in the past year have resumed their acquaintance with Shakespeare and liked it. Chief sponsor of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...
Caraway of Arkansas, Dill of Washington. Ownership by a judicial nominee of motor, mining, oil, rail, industrial or other stocks did not alarm these Senators, did not make them distrust the nominee's honor. But they would recommend confirmation of no judicial nominee whom they knew owned utility power stock, would presumably make it their business to uncover such ownership in all future nominees...