Word: cumberlandism
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...authority in marketing more than a reasonable surplus of its power (TIME, March 4), one amendment authorized TVA to generate power at all dams, transmit and market such power. Other amendments permitted the Authority to up its capitalization from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, annex the Cumberland River & basin to its domain...
...collapse at Culloden, Author Mackenzie tells little, concentrates on the loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...
...father, a Welsh coal miner who was a Baptist preacher by avocation. At 20, Son Lewis went to a labor meeting and spoke so stirringly that a newshawk said to him: " Boy, you ought to be a lawyer." At 23, Lewis was. And ten years later, having settled at Cumberland. Md., he began a political career, long, thorny, courageous...
...order of the little Prince's mother, Jane Seymour, in 1538 as a New Year's present for Henry VIII. Hanging in Windsor Castle for years, it is believed that either George I or George II took it to Hanover. There it passed to the Duke of Cumberland-Brunswick and eventually to Knoedler & Co. who sold it to Mr. Mellon...
...Garner" really does show the "promise" attributed to Agee by Messrs. Benet and MacLeish. In it is a genuine and deep feeling for the story the poet is telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth, the surge of life awakening in the spring, the warm, rich rain, and the dismal despair of the hopeless winter...