by Ray Hill | May 29, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Jake Lindsey epitomized much about how Americans saw themselves when he joined the army in February of 1940. Lindsay, a resident of the tiny hamlet of Lucedale, Mississippi, joined the armed forces well before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The...
by Ray Hill | May 21, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Cordell Hull, remembered as the longest serving Secretary of State in the country’s history, almost abbreviated his service due to his unhappiness inside President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet. Frequently feeling ignored, if not actually humiliated by...
by Ray Hill | May 14, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt – Ruth Bryan Owen lived a truly remarkable life; at various times she was an author, filmmaker, lecturer, diplomat and congresswoman. She was also the...
by Ray Hill | May 7, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill The Tennessee Congressional delegation was lending strong support to the neutrality bill proposed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and President Franklin Roosevelt. Congressman Wirt Courtney, who had been elected after the sudden death of Clarence W....
by Ray Hill | Apr 30, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The United States Senate had begun the final debate on revising the Neutrality Act. Senators contemplated amendments being offered by colleagues who were opposed to repealing the arms embargo and allowing the United States to sell weapons, munitions and goods...
by Ray Hill | Apr 23, 2017 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee’s senior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, had moved strongly behind the neutrality program of President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. McKellar was unquestionably the longest serving and most powerful member of...
