Word: dillinghams
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From 1900 to 1923 William Paul Dillingham represented his state in the United States Senate. Last week, after an attack of gallstones and an operation, he died in a hospital at Montpelier, aged 79. His death marks the passing of another of the Dillinghams of Vermont. First there was John, who emigrated to America in 1630; then great-grandfather Paul, who was killed under Wolfe at Quebec; later grandfather Paul, who served in the Revolution; still later father Paul, Governor of Vermont; and most lately William Paul, the Senator and ex-Governor, still in the line of descent...
From a political standpoint the death of Mr. Dillingham is not likely to have many direct consequences. Vermont is as nearly a solid Republican state as there is in the Union. One death is little likely to change its politics...
...interior organization of the Senate the passing of the Vermont Senator is likely to produce a considerable effect; for, following the death of the late Senator Knute Nelson, Senator Dillingham would have become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee (by rule of seniority). Following the death of Senator Dillingham, Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, will become Chairman of that committee...
Died. William P. Dillingham, United States Senator from Vermont, 79, at Montpelier, after an abdominal operation. (See page...
...Charles Dillingham announced that a new Fred Stone show (the first in three years) would be entitled Stepping Stones and that the comedian's daughter, Dorothy, would make her debut in the cast. Despatches from Rome indicate that the filming of The Eternal City (from Hall Caine's novel) is attracting masses of curious natives. The cast transported by Goldwyn for this ambitious venture includes Barbara LaMarr, Richard Bennett, Lionel Barrymore, Montague Love, Bert Lytell. A particularly interested spectator is Irene Fenwick who, about to marry Lionel Barrymore, accompanied the expedition to Italy...