Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral chapel was the Little Church of the Flowers, a quarter-mile downhill from the Wee Kirk. When asked in 1923 if a marriage might be performed in the Little Church, Chairman Eaton replied, "Why not?" Since then 7,000 nuptials have taken place, to the increasing distaste of Southern California ministers, in that church and in the Wee Kirk which was built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages at the Wee Kirk. The latter...
...attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee's supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board's then record single outlay ($4,000,000) to build a Medical School...
Wendell Willkie, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Company, has accepted in an invitation to speak at the dinner in Lowell House. Phillip la Follette, Governor of Wisconsin, also is scheduled for an address...
...plethora of words makes a picture deserving of a plethora of plaudits, "There Goes My Girl," with Ann Southern and Gene Raymond should be the most strongly acclaimed film of the year...