Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Josephus Daniels Jr., son of the onetime Secretary of the Navy and present editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer; to Miss Evelina Foster McCauley, at Nashville, Tenn...
...deaths from typhoid fever in U. S. cities of 100,000 or more population. In 1925 there were 77 such cities, 8 more than in 1920. Last year two such cities were entirely free from typhoid fever mortality?Lowell, Mass., and Scranton, Pa. The greatest mortality was in Memphis, Tenn...
...Great Smoky Mountain Conservation Association presented the President with a young wildcat, with assurances that it was captured in Sevier County, Tenn., "the strongest Republican county in the country in 1924," and that such wildcats domesticated are more friendly than house cats. The President sent the cat to the local...
Paul Drennan Cravath, millionaire lawyer of Manhattan, has a worthy but troublesome legacy in Fisk University for Negroes (Nashville, Tenn.), of which his father, Rev. Erasmus M. Cravath, was the first president, and of which he is head trustee. Just a year ago he received a telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop...
...gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion, Brains and Bigotry, Science and Superstition...