Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the Washington office: Bascom Timmons, Texas crony of Silliman Evans and Jesse Jones, now representative of eleven papers from Texas to Massachusetts...
...bronzes, were discovered by William R. Bascom, of Northwestern University, during research in Nigeria, on the West African coast, near the famous native metal working center at Benin...
...camp meetings for generations, looks upon them as its annual vacation. On Sundays brick-red dust smoked up from the dirt road into Salem's 65 acres as thousands more arrived to hear a thunder of evangelists, headed by a redheaded, blue-eyed, 81-year-old Methodist, Dr. Bascom Anthony...
...plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to his point: "I have a candidate. I nominate Mr. Bascom Timmons of Texas...