Word: cumberlandism
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...York Authority, this independent Federal agency, with its own credit and its own crew, is to undertake what the President had called "the widest experiment ever conducted by a government"-the industrial development of a 640,000-sq. mi. watershed. Its domain starts in the wooded heights of the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains, sweeps down past Knoxville and Chattanooga, dips into Alabama at Muscle Shoals, turns north through the rolling farm lands of Tennessee and Kentucky and comes to an end at Paducah on the Ohio. In this vast basin the U. S. Government is not only going into...
...Raphael panel was not the only purchase from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...
Born on his well-to-do parents' farm near Carthage, Tenn., Cordell Hull used to raft logs down the Cumberland River. With a law degree from Cumberland University, he quickly mixed practice and politics, served briefly in the State Legislature. During the Spanish War he captained a company of the 40th Tennessee Volunteers. Because he once sat on the district bench, most Tennesseeans still call him "Judge." In 1906 he was elected to the House where he wrote the first Federal income tax law (1913), the first Federal inheritance tax law (1916). When the Harding landslide...
...touches on his Cleveland address. Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards. At Martinsburg, W. Va. began a series of rear platform appearances that were to continue throughout the 13-hour journey. At Cumberland, Md. where are tariff-protected celanese mills. President Hoover reminded a station crowd that the first measure from the First Congress signed by President Washington was a protective tariff. Dusk had fallen when the train reached Akron where a short tariff-&-rubber speech was made...
...FORTRESS?Hugh Walpole? Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The third and next-to-last in Walpole's series about the Herries family of Cumberland...