Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knoxville, Tenn...
Besides lobbying through the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Bill and preventing the confirmation of Judge John J. Parker, Herbert Hoover's nominee for the Supreme Court, McGrady enhanced his reputation by going in 1929 to Elizabethton, Tenn. to investigate for the A. F. of L. a strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired...
Catchiest of the good tunes by Lew Pollack & Sidney D. Mitchell seems to be It's Love I'm After, sung by Judy Garland, a 14-year-old Murfreesboro, Tenn. girl...
...assist in inaugurating the new program of professional training for administrative work in secondary schools opening this fall in the Graduate School of Education, Dr. Charles W. Knudsen will temporarily leave his post as professor of Secondary Education at the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. He will give courses preparing students for the work of the principal or headmaster of a secondary school...
Avowed purpose of the Foundation is "to propagate the principles of health building." Its various health institutes charge substantial fees, cash in advance. A Macfadden Foundation patron might conceivably place his son in Educator Macfadden's Castle Heights Military Academy at Lebanon, Tenn. (tuition $650), spend the winter at Host Macfadden's New Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, and so debilitate himself in that winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden...