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Visiting in Manhattan, hulking Novelist Erskine Caldwell (God's Little Acre, We Are the Living) talked about the natives in the vicinity of Augusta, Me. where he now lives. Said he: "They don't get married much in Maine. . . . The population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom. Winter is so terrible up there and their stock has so petered out that the oncoming of fall is called the suicide season. The old people just can't face another winter and so they bump themselves off. . . . Down the road from...
Meantime, Director Lilienthal has been busy in other parts of the TVA territory. Some 50 Southern municipalities have applied to TVA for power contracts, including Decatur, Ala., Augusta, Ga., Jackson, Tenn. Last week Director Lilienthal journeyed to Tupelo, Miss, to sign formally the first such contract. En route, he stopped off at Atlanta to make a speech on "the electrification of America...
...Stoddard, J. P. Reisman, Eleanor Packard, William Ray, G. Louise, Robert H. Walker, Arky deRosset, H. G. White, A. P. Felton, Catherine E. Jodoin, J. McClellan Laughin, Marguerite Walsh, Kenneth G. Cloby, D. Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...
...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
Last week with 5,443 out of 6,736 Federal Reserve member banks and 7,654 out of 11,435 State banks* recovered from the banking holiday and again doing unrestricted business, the executive council of American Bankers Association assembled in Augusta, Ga., to play golf on Bobby Jones's Augusta National golf course and exchange profundities of hindsight. The A. B. A. Economic Policy Commission took up the task of expressing the refreshed financial wisdom of those members who were still bankers. Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, famed economist-vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. (one of Cleveland...