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Some crime commissions are not very aggressive. Chattanooga's is mainly a public relations liaison, run by the Chamber of Commerce. Philadelphia citizens crime commission Executive Director Ian Lennox calls his organization "a very friendly watchdog" and is worried that it lacks clout. But he states that "any community is poorer without...
...Orthodox Jewish immigrant umbrella maker, Freeman grew up in Chattanooga and still remembers when the city was ravaged by floods before TVA dams tamed the Tennessee River. Says he: "If you were a member of the generation that saw the light bulb replace a kerosene lantern and benefited from the blessing of electric pumps that drew the water from the well, so you didn't have to carry water from the well, then you really appreciated what the TVA had accomplished." Recalls Freeman: "TVA and religion were the two biggest things in my life...
John M. Wolfe Jr. Chattanooga, Tenn...
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...years after the paper was founded by a Republican politician and a few months before it would have died of terminal mismanagement. Ochs (which he pronounced ox, its meaning in German), the Cincinnati-born son of German-Jewish immigrants, had at the age of 20 acquired the flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers then renamed Times Square). Ochs banished fiction from the newspaper and declared that comic strips, gossip columns and other...