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...water power. Its dissatisfaction with the present policy was chiefly responsible for recent legislation reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small...
...snuff industry is dominated by three great companies. There is U. S. Tobacco Co. whose brand is famed Copenhagen. Last year this company earned $2,771,000, but the figure was swelled by returns from smoking tobacco including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered...
...Copeland '69, 1c.; E. H. Learned '26, l.t.; J. C. Packard, l.g.; John Pollard, c.; L. F. Dill r.g.; J. C. Baker '23, r.g.; A. S. Dewoy, r.g.; Madison Sayles '27; S. T. Foster, l.h.b.; J. B. Knight '25, r h b; P. K. McElroy...
...Freshman squad, numbering 33 candidates, is as follows: R. S. Baxter, A. J. Bush, F. J. Carr, B. N. Carlson, P. L. Conley, R. S. Cosby, W. B. Cudany, A. C. Dearing, E. C. Devereux, D. L. Dill, H. G. Dillingham, L. Dillingham, W. C. Feinberg, H. L. Fox, N. S. French, W. H. Hamman, R. B. Heath, H. M. Howe, C. V. Hubbard, T. A. Ivory, G. L. Jorgensen, M. S. Knowles, E. H. Mairs, C. J. Nevin, S. B. Schwab, F. Shurtleff, E. L. Smith, E. E. Stowell, J. L. Ward, G. Wightman, G. D. Windsor...
...same class ('95) with Herbert Clark Hoover. In 1918 he was named as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Washington, became its chief justice in 1927. An active Republican, he was nominated for the Senate in 1928, was defeated by Democratic Senator Clarence C. Dill. In 1929 he resigned from the bench to accept appointment by President Hoover as a National Law Enforcement Commissioner...