Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chattanooga, Tenn...
...pointer Susquehanna Tom won the Grand National. In minor meets this winter, setters have won almost as many firsts as pointers but pointers have won the more important prizes. Of the 16 dogs entered for the Grand National, run last week over the Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., only two were setters and the favorite, if there was one, was Walter C. Teagle's white & liver pointer, Norias Roy, who won the Continental trials in January...
Born on his well-to-do parents' farm near Carthage, Tenn., Cordell Hull used to raft logs down the Cumberland River. With a law degree from Cumberland University, he quickly mixed practice and politics, served briefly in the State Legislature. During the Spanish War he captained a company of the 40th Tennessee Volunteers. Because he once sat on the district bench, most Tennesseeans still call him "Judge." In 1906 he was elected to the House where he wrote the first Federal income tax law (1913), the first Federal inheritance tax law (1916). When the Harding landslide...
...Memphis, Tenn., Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. accepted the gift of a large rug patterned after a $5 Federal Reserve note. The U. S. Treasury Department had ruled it did not constitute a counterfeit...
...Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud an Asheville, N. C. bank, were ordered arrested last week after they failed to surrender to serve jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union Indemnity Co. (now in receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains at Jamestown were denied. Questioned as to her husband...