Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...Washington for two days, left for Hyde Park again. Presidential travels made it plain that citizens faced a delicate problem in discriminating between the actions of President Roosevelt and Candidate Roosevelt. It was announced that he would speak at the dedication of TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga on Labor Day, speak again in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then the President will inspect a naval armor and gun plant at South Charleston, W. Va. Recalling that President Roosevelt had declared during the Chicago convention that he thought it unwise to leave Washington during the crisis, statisticians checking back over...
...blocks of ice. Last week his old ice-wagon employer recalled his prodigious appetite: "That boy et mo' than the bosses." Satchel was born 31 years ago on Mobile's South Side. The boy played on the sandlots, then with a semi-pro outfit, then with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. Up in the big time, he was the ace of the Pittsburgh Crawfords for seven years. The famed Homestead (Pa.) Grays snatched him up, and he found himself riding high on $250 a game, averaging one game a week. Last year he went to the Monarchs, where...
...page 1 of his first issue Publisher Milton proudly slapped a. four-column enlargement of a letter: ''I congratulate you upon your determination to continue publication of a newspaper in Chattanooga. This resolution on your part exemplifies . . . courage of the highest order in the face of obstacles which could have crushed a less intrepid spirit. . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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