Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bessie Smith was born some 41 years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn. At 12, as a protegee of "Ma" Rainey, pioneer blues singer, she was moaning in tent shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening...
...will be painfully proved so by some spectacular, millennary cataclysm. Some cater to adepts of what Dr. David Starr Jordan called "sciosophy" ("systematized ignorance"). Out last week was a book about these teeming little sects, result of 15 years of study by Rev. Dr. Elmer Talmage Clark of Nashville. Tenn., secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South...
...indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...
Paulists Cunningham (who had preached before in non-Catholic Tennessee) and Halloran (who was born in McEwen, Tenn.) set out from Manhattan last September with St. Lucy attached to their Ford. St. Lucy is 23 feet long, contains living quarters forward, and in the rear, a confessional, a chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd...
Last week the trailer Paulists reported to headquarters that they were doing well. Their first mass, in Cowan, Tenn., attracted only three people, but their second, in Tullahoma, drew 15. At Decherd, trucks brought curious and friendly Protestants to see St. Lucy. Children gaped and enjoyed the services. On a return trip to Cowan, 250 people attended a meeting and the mayor urged the Paulists: "Hurry back...