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...took the Democratic National Committee a week to collect figures for a reply. Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill, as the party's respondent, pointed out that of the $6,541,000 in the 1928 Republican campaign fund, $2.580,000 was contributed by 239 rich men. Said he: "The Standard Oil's contribution was $92,500, the automobile manufacturers' $225,000, the steel magnates' $127,000, Wall Street's leading figures' $305,000. . . . Here are the names of 31 men whose contributions to elect Hoover reach the surprising figure of $698,000. . . . These...
...persons interested in bringing U. S. Copyright into line with that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...
...before him. He built a weird craft embodying the idea in 1926 and flew it at Clover Field, Los Angeles. Again in the National Air Races of 1928 he demonstrated another, built by his students of California Institute of Technology. It performed well but was impractical, was dubbed "the dill pickle" for its color and general conformation. Thereafter he obtained the financial backing of Hannibal C. Ford, president of Ford Instrument Co. Inc., a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc., which gave rise to the present development and the formation of Merrill Aircraft Co. Also associated with him are Thomas...
...regret that the confidence I hoped the country would have in the new Commission should be so early and so rudely disturbed." At once an insurgent Senate movement was on foot to reconsider the confirmation of the three Power Commissioners when Congress reassembles next week.* Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch, not yet in office, wired...
...Fraser Metzger of Rutgers University ("Dr. Butler's position . . . is well founded"); President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth ("Certainly worth considering"); President Thomas Sovereign Gates of University of Pennsylvania ("Sympathetic consideration"); President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore ("Evils of academic sports . . . come really from the spectators"); President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern ("Fine idea . . . but I do not believe that the endowment will be forthcoming"); President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University ("Proposals . . . must have general consideration"). But no enthusiasm: for Dr. Butler's scheme had Athletic Director Fielding Harris Yost of University of Michigan ("No possible value"); Coach...