Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilienthal misrepresented the attitude of Commonwealth & Southern (biggest private utilities system in TVA-land) toward sale of its properties to TVA, thus maintaining "an attitude of antagonism and bitterness in the public mind...
Much ado about nothing also appeared the trouble that the House had taken in perfecting the bill. The Southern bloc in the Senate, which is determined that no bill shall pass which does not provide a wage differential for the South, agreed to a cloak room compromise...
...expected to supply the major fireworks. Although he occasionally put some feeling into his voice, once pounded his desk, his was mostly another long, dull recital. After deploring the "reckless charges, insinuations and unjustifiable slurs" of a "character assassin," Director Lilienthal defended his "yardstick," his negotiations with Commonwealth & Southern, the wisdom and economy of his power program. Of the Berry Marble Case he said: "I deny flatly that I adopted ... a position of deference to Major Berry. . . . This particular situation concerns a mere difference of opinion ... as to the course of procedure best adopted to protection . . . from the danger...
...American literature since 1870. Of the four conference group courses numbered 170, 170a is most recommended; although somewhat elementary, Murdock is good on the American novel to 1900. Miller on the American Drama in "d" should be excellent. Those in the field think a conference group on Southern literature is needed...
...saying is: "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death. And their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished." Last week, at the annual Southern Presbyterian General Assembly in Meridian, Miss., this statement came up for discussion. Many a minister defended it, others found it an overstatement which "keeps our ministers constantly on the defensive." The Assembly voted, 151-to-130, to delete the two hard sentences from the confession of faith...