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Cast of Characters. Senator Clarence C. Dill of the great State of Washington, 42, genial, round-faced, onetime country school-teacher and newspaper reporter, famed as co-author of the scheme which controls radio throughout the land (TIME, Feb. 21), a sort of busybodied Herbert Hoover among Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Of Washington | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Of Washington | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Scene: Senator Dill's office in 1924.* Miss Jones enters, tries to interest the Senator in world peace. He answers her evasively. She chides him, exits in a pretty huff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Of Washington | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Radio Control, the long session of the 69th could not agree on "An Act for the regulation of radio communications"; the short session did. Last week with his signature President Coolidge made the White-Dill bill into law. A commission of five will regulate radio for one year; thereafter the Secretary of Commerce will be acting tsar (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 69th | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...President signed the White-Dill radio control bill and the McFadden-Pepper branch banking bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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