Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would preserve America," he said, "our demands upon our elected representatives must be based upon the general welfare and not upon shortsighted selfishness." With that and his resignation on file, he said goodbye to the House and left for Texas, there to become counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. at $25,000 a year...
...your July 16 story "The Bell of Kamela" we have a new variation of a perennial hoax. Older examples include the story of the Confederate general who, returning from the wars, stashed his sword in the fork of a young tree, whence it "grew" upward along with the tree only to be found long afterward, high above the ground, by the general's grandson. Now we hear of a cowbell which, tied by a pioneer to a young sapling, is found presumably 73 years later at the top of a towering ponderosa pine...
...Please be advised that it was none other than Minnesota's own Paul Bunyan who hung "Babe's" bell on that pine tree during a sojourn on the coast . . . BILL MACCONNACHIE Cloquet, Minn...
...Eugene Cox (Ga.), John Bell Williams (Miss...
Under President Dumas, Southern Bell expanded faster than any other A. T. & T. unit. Since the war it has put $100 million into new rural lines; its revenues have doubled (to $286 million), its telephones increased from 1.7 million to 3.5 million. When Dumas moves into A. T. & T.'s No. 2 spot in New York (estimated salary: $115,000 a year), he will bring with him two reminders of the South. One is the Confederate flag that he keeps in his Atlanta office. The other is his drawl. Says he: "I don't know whether they will...