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Though New Mexico's Senators were both Democrats, her Governor, Richard C. Dillon, is a Republican. Senator Jones's death put the technical balance of the Senate's power into Governor Dillon's hands. With Senators-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois off the floor, the Republicans mustered only 46 votes, requiring the vote of Farmer-Laborite Shipstead (Minnesota) to bring them even with the 47 Democrats; and the vote of Vice President Dawes to break a partisan deadlock. Now the Democrats were reduced to 46, and the Republicans stood to gain a seat...
...second member of the U. S. Radio Commission to die. Commissioner John F. Dillon died in September. Last week Commissioner Henry A. Bellows, high power salesman of his own optimistic ideas and the dominant member of the commission, resigned. Only Commissioners Orestes H. Caldwell and Judge Eugene O. Sykes of the original five remain and only the appointment of Commissioner Sykes has received Senate confirmation. Last week President Coolidge named Sam Pickard a commissioner. He had been the Commission's secretary. Another new appointment is Harold Lafount. They have no chairman. When the commissioners organize they will probably again...
Clarence Douglas Dillon '31, of Far Hills, New Jersey, has been appointed Freshman Football Manager at the close of a six weeks' competition, it was announced last night. Dillon prepared at Groton. The Assistant Freshman Manager is Stephen Pierce Duggan '31, of Scarsdale, New York, a graduate of Exeter, and the Second Assistant is Henry Chalfant '31, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who went to St. Paul...
Brazil, through a group headed by Dillon, Read & Co., offers in the U.S. $41,000,000 of an $85,000,000 issue. The rest is to be offered simultaneously in Europe. These 6½% bonds constitute one of the largest international loans since...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado, R. C. Dillon of New Mexico, George H. Dern of Utah and Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming interviewed the Arizona and California groups separately, then prepared a compromise. But again the two neighbor states disagreed, California refusing to accept the arbitrators' figures on Arizona's present vested rights...