Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of Standard Statistics Co. is Luther Lee Blake. He was born in Fayetteville, Tenn., started work as a telegraph operator in a Tennessee brokerage house. Later he moved to Manhattan, rose to be manager of the wire department of Laidlaw & Co. One of his duties was to answer questions concerning companies, and for this purpose he kept a scrapbook. In 1906 he thought of having pertinent facts on 100 leading corporations printed on cards which could be revised from time to time. He persuaded a printer to take a chance, used a bellboy at his hotel to distribute...
...Nashville, Tenn., seven Negresses started to hold a wake over a corpse. They knelt simultaneously to pray. The floor gave way; all seven and the corpse fell to the ground. They sued owners of the house for $3,000 apiece, Florence Young for loss of a gold tooth when her face was stepped on, Roberta Birdsong for injuries from sitting on a rusty nail, the others injuries to themselves and the corpse...
...Hobart Ames big plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn., over rolling country and meadowland covered with Japanese clover, the best bird dogs in the U. S. had trouble. The weather was warm and grey; rain threatened. Rex's Tar-heelia, Rumson Farm Queen, Junedale Lady Bird made some mistakes. Some of the dogs were pointing land turtles and stink-birds; several times deer interfered with the trials. Yankee Doodle Jack, black & white setter, looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might...
...coveys were found and Proctor, Wood-leigh's Roxie, Muscle Shoals Sam, Stoney Grove Bonny stood out well in the U. S. Field Trial Club's all-age stake-prelude to the national championships. this week on Hobart Ames's plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. Winner was Rex's Tarheelia, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by T. Carey Bailey of Baltimore, with George Feltman's Treco second...
...good Manhattanite (he was born in Rye, N. Y., says he has 10,000 cousins in North Carolina, a great-great-granduncle who gave his name to Nashville, Tenn.), Ogden Nash praises Manhattan in Manhattanish accents...