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...Senate Slush Fund Committee may be prosecuted for "wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Nye's Spies | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...meager merger announcement gave no details-not even the new corporate name or directorate. No information has been forthcoming about the reasons for the merger. But the implications are obvious; McCann gains many valuable accounts including Congoleum-Nairn, Bon Ami, Valspar, Dictaphone, Agfa-Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Quiet Merger | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Lynching No. 9 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Washington Senator Morris of Nebraska, arch critic of what he calls the Power trust, was of course prompt and bitter with his denunciation of Mr. Insull's "disgraceful attitude." Other Senators (Dill, Wheeler) sarcastically thanked Mr. Insull for performing a "public service." Washington waited to see what ef fect the catchy phrase "three mills . . . six cents" might have on the Senatorial inquisition, the great Power Probe, long-sought by the greatest inquisitor of them all, Senator Walsh of Montana. The investigation, started by a Walsh resolution in 1926, into the propagandizing activities and financial structure of public utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Three Mills . . . Six Cents | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...District Court at Wilmington, Del. It charged a nationwide monopoly, asked that Radio, its affiliates and subsidiaries, be disbanded. This action followed closely on a reorganization of Radio under which 51.3% of its stock would be voted by General Electric and Westinghouse, denounced by Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill as a "$6,000,000,000 worldwide trust" (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Radio Pool Suit | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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