Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following the lead of Commonwealth & Southern which this month sold TVA its Tennessee utilities for $80,000,000, National Power & Light last week sold to TVA and the City of Memphis for $17,360,000 the distributing system of Memphis Power & Light Co., leaving TVA with no major private competitors in Tennessee. TVA is dickering for parts of Commonwealth & Southern's Alabama and Mississippi properties that would give the Authority a clearly defined power empire in three States...
Veterans of the Spanish War banqueting in Baltimore's Southern Hotel last week were startled when an unscheduled speaker arose in their midst. The veterans' commander-in-chief, Thomas W. Payne, had just concluded the evening's big speech, in which he had waved the flag for ham-handed Representative Dies† and his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities. The unheralded speaker, tall, iron grey, with a noble-Roman nose, announced: "I have seen the Dies committee in action in its hearings. It appears to me that Congressman Dies wants to be Vice President...
...Shumlin) is the season's most tense and biting drama-as tense and biting as was Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour. From the Song of Solomon comes the title: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . ." Study of a rapacious Southern family on the make at the turn of the century, The Little Foxes catches the Hubbards-who by sharp bargaining and hard ways have achieved small-town prosperity-on the point of becoming heel-grinding, big-time industrialists...
WASHINGTON--The southern shores of the United States are vulnerable to attack by German bombers sent through South America and fueled and serviced at South American bases, a high government official was revealed today to have told the Senate Military Affairs Committee...
...been said a lot before, but it is still true: this year's Varsity ice team is an unpredictable one of many extremes. In its first two games, against the Junior Olympics and Southern California the squad upset the dope with two decisive victories. Then it lost to a rather mediocre B. U. sextet by a 6 to 3 score, and immediately after the Christmas vacation was taken into camp by Toronto to the tune...