Word: polk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential party awakened in its Pullmans on the western side of Tennessee at Nashville. There was a short stop at the State Capitol grounds while Mrs. Roosevelt went up to lay a wreath on the tomb of one of her husband's predecessors, 11th President James Knox Polk. Thousands lined streets and roads as the party continued into the country to breakfast at the old home of 7th President Andrew Jackson...
...some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan...
...early in the morning the three adventurers swam in the country club pool, visited local homespun weavers, motored 40 miles down over the mountains to visit their confrères, Misses Vance and Vale (Tryon Toy Makers) who for a generation have been teaching wood carving to the hillbillies of Polk County...
Dewey and Sall (W) defeated Beach and Haselton (D), by 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Polk and Tucker (W) defeated W. Humstone and Scott...
Shapiro (B) defeated Saul (W), by 6-2, 6-4; Reynolds (B) defeated Polk (W), by 6-2, 6-4; Dewey (W) defeated Mazel (B), by 5-7, 6-0, 10-8; Williams (W) defeated Schiller (B), by 6-3, 7-5; Nusbaum (W) defeated Creelman (B), by 6-4, 6-3; Godfrey (W) defeated Andelman (B), by 6-2, 6-4; and Lewin (W) won by default...