Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Nashville, Tenn. women tore the dress suit off his back, Baritone Nels Eddy called for police, asked them to save him from his admirers, take him to train...
...society is sponsoring a correction in all the standard school histories not only of the erroneous assumption which TIME repeated, but also of many other schoolbook myths about Andrew Jackson's record as a President of the U. S. RUDOLPH JOHNSON The Andrew Jackson Society of Tennessee Memphis, Tenn...
Last year Representatives were thoroughly embarrassed when Mr. & Mrs. Everett Parker of Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...
Awarded. To Always Faithful, U. S. Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon: a gold medal and certificate of honor by the American Racing Pigeon Union; for flying the 715 mi. from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Fort Monmouth, N. J. at an average speed of 47 m.p.h., beating 1,114 competitors...
...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...