by Ray Hill | Dec 28, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Senator Kenneth D. McKellar once claimed that outside of the three men who served as President of the United States, Robert Love Taylor was “the best-known man to the Republic at large that Tennessee has ever produced”. It well may have been true. Robert...
by Ray Hill | Dec 7, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Cordell Hull had served in the U. S. House of Representatives since 1906, with one brief two-year interlude, when he announced he would be a candidate for the United States Senate in 1929. It was rare, at that time, for a prospective candidate to declare...
by Ray Hill | Nov 30, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s senior United States senator, Kenneth D. McKellar, was well known for having a volatile temper and had won a well-deserved reputation as a feudist. It was not uncommon for the peppery senator to become involved in a physical altercation, even...
by Ray Hill | Nov 23, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill “I have no hesitancy in insisting that Government in an emergency do everything that can reasonably be done to relieve human suffering and distress.” That was the philosophy of John William McCormack throughout his long political career and he lived...
by Ray Hill | Nov 16, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill “Any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one.” So said Sam Rayburn of Texas. Completely bald, thickly built and one who never forgot his humble beginnings. Sam Rayburn was the looniest serving Speaker of the U. S. House of...
by Ray Hill | Nov 2, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill James F. Byrnes had resigned from the Supreme Court of the United States to accept the responsibility for running much of America’s war effort at the personal request of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Byrnes had given up a lifetime appointment, but...
