Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Stooping Oak, Tenn., on the Cumberland Plateau, newshawks last month found a tall, gaunt, 45-year-old named Jackson Whitlow who was daily growing gaunter from a fast to which he said the Lord had called him early in March. His face blotched from his "stomach trouble," Jackson Whitlow daily hoed the vegetable patch behind his cabin, seemed to have no plans beyond continuing his fast, accepting at its end some earthly bounty which the Lord had in mind...
Married. General Douglas MacArthur, 57, onetime (1930-35) U. S. Chief of Staff, now Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth: and Jean Marie Faircloth, 38, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., daughter of a Nashville flour miller, whom he met in Manila in 1935; in Manhattan's City Hall. His first wife, who divorced him in 1929, was Louise Cromwell Brooks, stepdaughter of Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, now wed to Actor Lionel Atwill...
...from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
Also saluted were these counties: Columbia, N. Y.; Davidson, Tenn.; Pike, Miss.; Shawnee, Kans.; Dallas, Tex.; Los Angeles, Calif. Doubly saluted for maintaining previous high standards was El Paso County...
Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...