Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cypress and liveoak river bottoms of South Carolina's coastal fringe near Charleston are festooned with Spanish moss and legend. Here Generals Sumter, Greene and Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox") harried Tarleton and Lord Rawdon at the Revolution's end. Here Sir Peter Parker's fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers...
...Pinopolis and began clearing land. But one impediment remained: South Carolina's condemnation law, behind which landowners in the to-be-flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...
...leading nominee for Führer & Savior of the U. S., the Army's retired Major General George Van Horn Moseley last week damned Jews, Reds and the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities whose guest he was. Witness Moseley set a record high for testamentary effrontery. His henchman, Charles B. Hudson of Omaha, set a high for panic by snatching away the General's water glass, lest it be poisoned (see cut). Otherwise General Moseley only rehashed and amplified his earlier, alarmistic mouthings (TIME, April 10), implied that the U. S. Army would be quelling "the enemy...
...philanthropic activities as well as his financial successes, Gardner has always taken a prominent part in Alumni affairs. His position as a trustee of the University kept him constantly in close touch with the college. During his varied business career he was affiliated with many industrial concerns including the General Electric Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...Headed by famed Surgeon Chevalier Jackson, Woman's Medical College was founded in 1850, has graduated over 1,600 women doctors -general practitioners, gynecologists, pediatricians, institution and research workers...