Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring under the spur of the two blowtorch lynchings at Duck Hill, Miss. (TIME, April 26), the Gavagan Bill, a similar anti-lynching measure, passed the House. Passage by the Senate therefore meant that the bill would become law barring the unlikely event of a Presidential veto. So as predicted, Texas' Tom Connally promptly organized a filibuster. Not as predicted, that filibuster last week rounded out ten days and had gathered so much momentum that Tom Connally jubilantly announced he would keep it going if necessary until Christmas...
Lillie A. Ridway awards were given to Allen E. Puckett '39, of Chicago Heights, Illinois who is also holder of a Kirkland scholarship, and to Charles A. Hill '39, of Worcester, Massachusetts...
...Heflin's chief liability was the loud and bigoted clownishness he displayed in both houses of Congress for 27 years. Lister Hill, reported candidate of Governor Bibb Graves's machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according...
...Representative for 14 years, 44-year-old Lister Hill is the son of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill, said to be one of the first surgeons to operate successfully on the human heart and a pupil of England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall...
About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning...