Word: carmack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign of 1908, and to the piety of Tennessee's rural counties...
...Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass
...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...
...Found unconscious beside a country road near Paris, Tenn., was one of six as pirants for Senator George Berry's seat from Tennessee. Candidate Edward Carmack "could not explain" who had beaten...
Case concerned Tennessee Publishing Co. (Nashville Tennesseean). Before he went to jail and the company went into receivership, Tennessee Publishing was owned by Nashville's Luke Lea. The present owner of the common stock, E. W. Carmack, submitted several 77-B reorganization plans to Nashville's Federal District Judge John J. Gore, who refused to approve them on the ground that they required coercion of a majority of the creditors. The case turned on the point that 77-B not only provides a means of clubbing a stubborn minority into line if two-thirds of the creditors...