Word: overton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessean's publisher, cyclonic, pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken, ice cream...
Research Fellowships to Elvin E. Overton, Dean of Mercer University Law School, Macon, G.; Jacobus ten-Broek, of Berkeley, Calif., LL.B. '38, University of California; Ernst H. Schopflocher, of Madison, Wis., J.U.D. '20, Erlangen-Bavaria, LL.B. '40, University of Wisconsin; Joseph Gold, of London, England, LL.B. '35, LL.M. '36, University of London; Selig J. Seligman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; Lewis B. Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George...
Reason. The gigantic machine that Huey Long had built careened from scandal to scandal, as solemn John H. Overton gave way to independent, Huey-worshipping James Noe, as Noe gave way to paunchy Dick Leche, and Leche resigned for Huey's brother Earl, Sam Jones's fortunes improved: he built a $30,000 house in Lake Charles (population now: 30,000), fathered a son and a daughter. Settling-up time had come for the Long machine. A photographer from the New Orleans' States got a picture of a State University truck being used to haul building supplies...