Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chattanooga, Tenn...
...Pinch hitter" (emergency batsman) was corned by Manager McGraw to describe Samuel Strang Nicklin, oldtime Giant (later a concert singer) who, aged 56, died last week in Chattanooga...
...Author. Mary Ilsley, 36, was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in the midst of her material. During the War she worked in England, married Engineer John Stanton Chapman. After the Armistice the Chapmans went back to the Tennessee hills, solved the housing problem by roaming wild for two years in a house-car. When "Maristan Chapman's" first book (The Happy Mountain} appeared, Mary got the credit. Last month their secret came out: "Maristan Chapman" is a combination of Mary and Stanton...
...York Evening Post, already 80 years old, was merged with Editor Edwin Lawrence Godkin's Nation. The small New York Times (published by Raymond & Jones) was 30, and Adolph Ochs was editing his Chattanooga Times. James Gordon Bennett the Elder was dead, succeeded by his son as publisher of the Herald. Joseph Pulitzer was about to leave St. Louis (after one of his editors shot a prominent citizen) to go to Manhattan and, as things turned out, to buy the World. Frank Munsey was a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. Edward Wyllis Scripps had started his Penny Press...
...this turn in the long ebbing tide of mob murder, a group of public-spirited whites joined with a group of public-spirited blacks in a Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Chairman of the commission which approached its problem dispassionately was George Fort Milton, publisher of the Chattanooga News, author of The Age of Hate. Other respect-commanding white members included Julian Harris, news director of the Atlanta Constitution and son of Uncle Remus' creator; President William Joseph McGlothlin of Furman University; Dr. Howard Washington Odum of the University of North Carolina. Noted Negroes on the Commission...