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...TACKLES: Francis Peay, 21, Missouri, 6 ft. 4 in., 246 lbs., and Sam Ball, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 4 in., 241 lbs. "If I were poetic," says one scout, "I'd say that Peay was very subtle for a lineman. There is real class in the way he hits people." Ball, says another, is simply "a mean S.O.B." Both are exceptionally agile for big men: "No matter how big a man is, he's going to be caught off balance too often if he hasn't got coordination...
Bait. In Hartford, Conn., when he heard that the police were holding a package with his name on it, Construction Worker Sam Peay hurried down to the police station, soon found his "package": a warrant for his arrest on a reckless-driving charge...
Thus did the Tennessee Legislature take its first decisive step toward removing from office the diffident, mild-mannered, 65-year-old Democrat who succeeded to the Governorship in 1927 upon the death of Austin Peay. An Alabaman by birth, Governor Horton was a village school-teacher who turned to law, practiced in Chattanooga, reached the State Senate just before his elevation. Though not a strong political personality, he was nevertheless elected Governor in 1928, re-elected...
...March, when Governor Peay signed the famous anti-evolution bill, he stated that "probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes it is going to be an active statute." In short, the Governor perched himself beautifully on the fence. The Fundamentalists were to have their law and their opponents were to have non-enforcement, and everybody was to be happy...
...bill prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the schools was signed by the Governor of Tennessee and became a law less than two months ago. His Excellency, in defending his action, caustically declared at that time that nobody believed it was going to be an active statute. Governor Peay, however, had his tongue in his cheek all the while it now appears. Professor J. T. Scopes, a scientist, is one of the first to realize that the soft spoken Fundamentalists were not so playful as they pretended, for before he knew it he found himself arrested to face a charge...