by design | Sep 7, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Iowa’s Cantankerous Congressman Harold Royce “H. R.” Gross By Ray Hill It is fair to say there was not a speck of get-along-go-along in the character of Harold Royce Gross, a former newscaster who spent 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the...
by design | Sep 1, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Unknown Long George S. Long of Louisiana By Ray Hill One of the most enduring of all political dynasties is that founded by Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana’s “Kingfish.” Even those who barely know anything about politics and history are oftentimes familiar with the...
by design | Aug 24, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Homer T. Bone of Washington By Ray Hill Homer T. Bone served just under twelve years in the United States Senate and sat on the federal bench as a judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1944 until his death in 1970. A man devoted to his wife and son,...
by design | Aug 17, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Our Congressman Richard W. Austin By Ray Hill For a decade, the congressman from Tennessee’s Second Congressional District was Richard W. Austin. Lean of frame, clean-shaven with piercing eyes and a bald pate, R. W. Austin counted his friends by the thousands. ...
by design | Aug 10, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From West Virginia Cleveland Bailey By Ray Hill Cleveland Monroe Bailey looked more like movie director Tim Burton’s idea of a mortician than a congressman. Bald, jug-eared and slightly stooped, Bailey served a total of fourteen years in the U.S. House...
by design | Aug 3, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
‘Stubby’ A Hero of the Great War By Ray Hill Faithful readers of this column know of my great love for dogs, and I cannot count the number of times people have told me how much they like it when I write about animals. I have long contended that the dog is God’s most...
