Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville. Tenn., Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Gate sued for divorce because her baby's first words, "Damn it to hell.'' were caused, she said, by her husband's habitual profanity...
...First National Tom Thumb tournament; at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn...
...Building & Home Ownership Conference as he officially started them on a survey of the National Housing situation. The President's chief aim: easier credit for home purchasers. ¶To the White House with many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased him. He was tickled. He laughed." ¶President Hoover dotted his last...
Archie Butt was born in Augusta in 1865 of good but impoverished family. By working as librarian at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., his mother managed to give him an education at that institution. After the Spanish War he secured a captain's commission in the Army Quartermaster Corps, distinguished himself only by transporting 557 horses and mules from Portland, Ore. to Manila without the loss of an animal. He was recalled from Cuba by President Roosevelt in 1908 to begin his White House service. A bachelor with gayety, tact, discretion, he gave himself up entirely...
Last spring there were strong rumors that $62,000 had been stolen from the National Baptists' Sunday School Publishing Board at Nashville, Tenn. President Williams sent Edward Donahue Pierson to audit the books. As Pierson was returning from Nashville to Chicago, someone shot him to death near Scottsburg, Ind., stole his audit report. Arrested for complicity in the murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur...