by Ray Hill | Apr 3, 2016 | Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Few men have been as colorful as John Nance Garner of Texas. Garner spent thirty-eight years in Washington, D. C., and the last eight as vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet, Garner shunned the limelight, preferring to make his considerable...
by Ray Hill | Mar 27, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee, like every other state in the union, had been devastated by the Great Depression. The suffering in Tennessee was accentuated by the fact almost seven million dollars in state money had been lost when Caldwell and Company, one of the largest...
by Ray Hill | Mar 13, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Stephen M. Young was an unlikely person to become a successful politician, yet he spent a lifetime pursuing high public office. Highly irascible, a devout liberal, and utterly unwilling to suffer fools, Young never bothered to appease upset constituents....
by Ray Hill | Mar 6, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Charles Evans Hughes achieved just about every high office that could come to one man save one: the presidency, and he came mighty close to achieving that as well. Judge Learned Hand once paid tribute to both Hughes and his son, Charles Evan Hughes, Jr.,...
by Ray Hill | Feb 28, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For a time, there was no more influential Republican in the State of Tennessee than Newell Sanders. Sanders was a Republican at a time when the GOP was at a distinct disadvantage in the Volunteer State, yet he helped to build his party and became a...
by Ray Hill | Feb 14, 2016 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill There are likely more pedigrees in politics than the American Kennel Club and if anyone ever possessed a pedigree, it would be Robert Alphonso Taft of Ohio. For decades, Robert A. Taft was one of the most prominent members of the United States Senate. ...
