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Plenty of liquor is drunk in Tennessee, and it is 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...
...Tennessee State Legislature, State Senator Lem Motlow, long vexed by tobacco auctioneers' gabble-gobble, introduced a bill requiring every Tennessee auctioneer "to speak distinctly and slowly enough so that he may be understood by the average citizen...
...diplomacy is quite as big a prob-lem as neutrality to churchmen. Secretaries Diffendorfer and Shaw were cautious indeed about condemning Japanese aggression in China. In the sight of God, Japanese souls are quite as good as Chinese souls, and the autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more...
...LEM W. HOUSTON...
Long ago Chiang pondered that prob-lem and selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or less isolated from Eastern China by mountain ranges and the gorges of the Yangtze River. In its centre forehanded General Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that...