by Ray Hill | Nov 1, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill February 5, 1937 was a Friday and President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly announced his intention to ask Congress to enlarge the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt was fresh from a smashing reelection campaign in 1936, which saw the president...
by Ray Hill | Oct 25, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Senator Kenneth D. McKellar turned seventy-seven years old in January of 1946. He had been in Congress since 1911 and in the Senate since 1917. It was clear McKellar was aging and there had been some thought the old Tennessean would retire. President...
by Ray Hill | Oct 18, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The relationship between any two people is usually at least somewhat complicated; between two personalities like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Alben Barkley of Kentucky, it was especially so. Barkley, despite not being one of the more senior members of the...
by Ray Hill | Oct 11, 2015 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The first real media marketing campaign began in December of 1954 when Walt Disney aired Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter. It was the first of three episodes planned by Disney based on the life of the Tennessee frontiersman. The Disney movie...
by Ray Hill | Oct 4, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Eleanor Medill Patterson was the first woman to successfully run a major metropolitan newspaper. Known as “Cissy” due to the nickname given to her in childhood by her brother, she was volatile, unpredictable, frequently gleefully malevolent and...
by Ray Hill | Sep 27, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill If Senator K. D. McKellar was an accomplished feudist, another son of Tennessee was at the very least as accomplished in that art: General Andrew Jackson. President Andrew Jackson carried the bullet in his body from a duel he fought until he died;...
