Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn. last week one woman died of spinal meningitis and an other victim developed the disease. They were the 21st case and 15th death from spinal meningitis there this year. In rural Knox County, outside Knoxville, five cases have been discovered; one died. In other east Tennessee counties doctors have reported several sporadic cases. The situation last week caused Dr. Fray Owen Pearson, Knoxville's young epidemiologist, to cry: "Alarmingly serious. . . . Take care of your bodies and health. . . . Keep your children away from public places and crowds and always away from the funerals of people who have died...
Such educators had their eyes, last week on Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where old Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland seemed about to give the Chicago plan a new twist. Next autumn, he announced, the last two years of the college will be cut adrift from the first two, moored to a graduate school under a single dean. The first two years could scarcely become anything but a junior college...
...Nashville, Tenn., Lecturer Ralph Pearson inadvertently included in a lantern slide lecture of the world's artistic monstrosities a slide of Nashville's own replica of the Parthenon. The audience, socialite young women of the Ward-Belmont School, stanchly applauded...
...coming town of Chattanooga, Tenn. nearly 60 years ago went a serious, purposeful young Jew. He had been working around newspaper print shops since he was eleven. Now, at 20, he wanted to start a newspaper of his own. With his personal fortune of $37.50 plus $250 he borrowed, he bought control of the bankrupt Chattanooga Times...
...death of Publisher Ochs was not unexpected. For more than a year his own New York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came the day in 1896 when Adolph Ochs...