Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal to manufacture liquor in Tennessee for export to other States. This last is due to the cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign of 1908, and to the piety of Tennessee...
When Pope Pius XII (see p. 36), then Cardinal Pacelli, visited the U. S. in 1936, he was flown over 4,000 miles in a chartered plane, piloted by Captain Jack O'Brien. Last week Pilot O'Brien reminisced: "Everywhere we flew those three days and four nights, north, east or south or west, we were favored with tail winds and clear weather, and just as soon as we went through, the weather behind us closed in and conditions were unflyable. . . . I decided to catch up on my religion...
...McSweeney with 12 points and Fran Simpson with nine were the big guns in the Crimson attack, and the play of Bill Smith at guard was another feature of the game. Captain Jack Stewart at center and Vic Marans were the other two Harvard starters...
...taking with him Tommy Dorsey, Art Shaw, Larry Clinton, Sammy Kaye, and Dick Todd to form a new record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
Dunster House will feature Jack Teagarden, trombone jitterbug, and his orchestra at the Funsters' winter formal dance tomorrow evening. There will be dancing from 10 to 3 o'clock...