Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 10,000 visitors swarmed to town to be on hand for the trial of nine itinerant Negroes who had been charged with assaulting two white girls. The girls, clad in overalls and accompanied by seven white men, had been '"bumming" their way in a freight car from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Huntsville, Ala., when the Negroes, aged from 14 to 21, boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when the train reached Paint...
...Tennessee Legislature take its first decisive step toward removing from office the diffident, mild-mannered, 65-year-old Democrat who succeeded to the Governorship in 1927 upon the death of Austin Peay. An Alabaman by birth, Governor Horton was a village school-teacher who turned to law, practiced in Chattanooga, reached the State Senate just before his elevation. Though not a strong political personality, he was nevertheless elected Governor in 1928, re-elected...
...strategic opening. (Errett Lobban Cord's new Century Airlines, radiating out of Chicago, was said to have turned a covetous eye upon the Columbus route.) The other new service was American Airways, Inc., between Cincinnati and Atlanta. Flying time is 4? hr., with stops at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga. Other strategic schedules, not so new, but of interest to the traveler who contemplates air transportation: Atlanta-Boston: Leave Atlanta 8 a.m. by Eastern Air Transport, for Newark Metropolitan Airport. Transfer there to American Airways (Colonial) to Boston, arriving 8 p.m. The southbound trip cannot be made in a single...
Such was the new line of historical reasoning put forth last week by George Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga News, upon the discovery of 20,000 letters to and from the great-lunged, short-legged Illinois Senator. Under the dusty eaves of an old barn at Greensboro. N. C., was found this treasure of historical correspondence. It belonged to Robert Dick Douglas, the "Little Giant's" grandson who turned it over to Editor Milton for use in connection with the latter's forth coming Douglas biography.* Declared Mr. Milton...
...Girl. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Ruth was informed that the Chattanooga Look-outs had a female pitcher, Virne Beatrice ("Jackie") Mitchell. "How big is she?" he enquired. Told that Pitcher Mitchell was 5 ft. 8 in., slim, left-handed and 17 years old, Babe Ruth yawned. Said he: "I don't know what's going to happen. . . . I don't know what things are coming...