Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn., where Senator Vic Donahey's TVA investigating committee was assembling for an inspection tour, Dr. Morgan took advantage of TVA's corporate status to file a civil suit against it. He sued in a local chancery court instead of in U. S. District Court, where TVA would prefer to answer his demands for: 1) $2,916.66 back salary accrued since the President fired him March 23 for obstructing TVA affairs and contumacy; 2) recognition as TVA chairman, on the ground that the President had no authority to discharge...
...Agreed to lend $5,800,000 through RFC to help eliminate competition between private utilities and Government power projects. Knoxville, Tenn. will use the money, first such RFC loan, to purchase the local power system of Tennessee Public Service Co. as arranged six weeks ago (TIME...
When the citizens of Knoxville. Tenn., tired of the city manager form of government, City Manager Walter Mynatt ran for mayor. He had a simple platform: Bring TVA to Knoxville, and was elected. Since then he has been preoccupied with two things besides running the city: higgling with National Power & Light Co. over a reasonable price for its Knoxville properties, and trying to persuade Knoxville's citizens to return to the city manager form of government...
Charles W. Oliphant -- Miss Judy Alexander, Memphis, Tenn...
Gathered last week in Mrs. Robertson's Shady Lawn Tourist Camp outside of Nashville, Tenn. was one of the South's most talkative, most anachronistic minority groups-500 itinerant Irish horse traders, the Rileys and Costellos, the O'Haras, Carrolls and Sherlocks. During the winter they travel round from one mule market to another, running down the animals of other people and commenting enthusiastically on the good points of their own. During the summer they live in tourist camps and see the world. Once a year, on May 1. they get together just outside of Nashville...