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...committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested that the Senate Finance Committee should "purge itself" by removing Senator Bingham from its membership. Cried Democratic Senator George of Georgia: "The shadow of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association is across every schedule and every paragraph of this pending tariff bill. That shadow becomes darker and longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...believer in presidential dignity, rarely does President Hoover lend himself to advertising publicity. Last week however he did, when Washington's Senator Dill brought to the White House for a presidential greeting Miss Helen Brenton of Tacoma, Wash., Smart Set's choice of a "Typical American Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progressives Flayed | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Senator Dill's filibuster against the Nicaraguan canal survey ceased when the Senate voted to continue investigating the Bureau of Indian Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House & Senate | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles, and a few apples - cannot be called meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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