Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hickory. Dogged adherence to fixed ideas, independence, equality, a tradition for violence and abhorrence of ostentation-upon all these Tennessee prides herself. She likes to think she inherited them from Andrew Jackson, the old border fighter and duelist who declared: "Ask nothing but what is right, submit to nothing wrong. . . . True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and producing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy." Old Hickory's shoots still spring green in the Volunteer State...
...playwrights, Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, to lie in state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...
...being, Witness Stanley was permitted only a brief statement, but as the hearing neared its close the most persistent man in Wall Street plowed back to his favorite subject. Said he: "... I put my own ideas in the form of a memorandum which I would like very much to submit. . . ." Up rose Leon Henderson: "I object. ... I regard it as decidedly a disregardance of the orderly presentation of information. ... If it needs any stronger language I will be glad to offer...