by Ray Hill | Oct 16, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill After having lost a close race for the United States Senate in 1964, Howard H. Baker, Jr. resolved to run again in 1966. Senator Ross Bass would have to defend his seat after only two years, as he was completing the term of the late Estes Kefauver. The...
by Ray Hill | Oct 9, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill During the last decade, Tennessee has become more solidly Republican with the GOP occupying the governorship, both seats in the United States Senate, seven out of nine Congressional seats and a majority in the General Assembly. Not so long ago, Tennessee...
by Ray Hill | Oct 2, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, had finally abandoned his opposition to the construction of the Douglas Dam. For those who thought it signified some kind of surrender in his battle of wills with Tennessee Valley Authority...
by Ray Hill | Sep 25, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Senator Kenneth D. McKellar’s reputation has suffered through the years largely due to his feud with David E. Lilienthal. Lilienthal was one of the original Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Like all of Kenneth McKellar’s feuds, it was a no...
by Ray Hill | Sep 18, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill “A college boy cannot successfully go through life by graduating in football, baseball or highballs, for the responsibilities of life are not ball-bearing.” – William H. Murray William H. Murray is almost invariably described as Oklahoma’s most colorful...
by Ray Hill | Sep 11, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Albert Gore, forty-four years old in 1952, was poised to challenge Tennessee’s most formidable vote getter, Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, in the Democratic primary. McKellar, eighty-three years old and ailing, remained an imposing candidate...
