Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with...
Furthermore, said Harris, college graduates could expect their salary advantage (over non-college men & women) to dip even more than it has. In 1940, the college man earned about 32% more than the American average; by 1948 he was making only 10% more. "The time may come," warned Harris, "when...
Quartets and soloists from all over the South hopped onto the platform to take their turns at singing with piano or guitar accompaniment. In between, professional gospel song leaders led the audience in catchy religious songs not found in regular denominational hymnals. Most of the men, women & children attending had...
Tin Pan Alley. To feed the South's continually growing appetite for such music, a gospel Tin Pan Alley has grown up with headquarters in Dallas. Presiding over it is bright-eyed, 60-year-old Jesse Randall Baxter, whose Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co., Inc. employs 50 people, does...
He gave River Saga a steady flow of hummable melodies and pounding rhythms that hit his West Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where...