Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern newspapers down the Mississippi in bottles, or simply crossed the lines with them. Shortly before the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was delighted to read in the New York Times a story about a scheme for bluffing part of his forces out of their positions around Chattanooga. Bragg, forewarned by one of the country's most reliable journals, refused to be bluffed...
...Recent college graduates now have a chance to break into the wire services and other fields of journalism. The trend is away from hiring only experienced newspaper men," Watson S. Sims, Bureau Chief of the Associated Press's Chattanooga, Tenn., office stated here last night...
...Governor's campaign converted Chattanooga's Associated Press reporter Watson S. Sims. "Following the campaign closely since Chicago, I was converted by Stevenson's honesty in facing national issues. To me he has talked sense...
...speech to the Chattanooga Bar Association, Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold R. Medina recalled some of the pressure he endured during the 1949 trial of the eleven U.S. Communist leaders in Manhattan. It began, said the judge, about a month after Defense Secretary James Forrestal jumped to his death from a hospital window. Somehow the Communists learned that Medina had a fear of high places and capitalized on this weakness. They plagued him with pickets carrying placards reading "Medina will fall like Forrestal," and cryptic letters and anonymous phone calls repeating again & again the word jump. Said Medina...
Watson Sims, Associated Press correspondent, Chattanooga, Tenn. A native of Georgia, he was graduated at Tufts College in 1946 and received an M.S. degree at Columbia in 1947. He plans to study regional problems of the South in economics, sociology and politics...