Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into a Memphis, Tenn., department store walked James D. Smith of Corinth, Miss., asked for credit and a charge account. For reference he gave "Herbert Hoover, the White House." The President, queried by the store, responded that Mr. Smith was a "good risk," that he was the contractor who had built the Hoover home at Palo Alto...
Though the four sons of Dr. Welch now run the business (Edgar T. as President, Paul R. as Vice President and Treasurer, John F. as Vice President and Secretary, and all three plus William T. as Directors) the company has been controlled since last November by a Nashville, Tenn. financial syndicate. The Welch Christmas gift is worth, at current market prices, approximately $425,000. Since there are only about 300 Welch employes, each Welchman found in his Christmas stocking something in the neighborhood of $1,400-more or less, depending on his rank and length of service...
Died. LeRoy Percy, 68, cotton planter, onetime (1910-13) Senator from Mississippi by appointment, member of the Federal Reserve Board; at Memphis. Tenn.; after an illness of several weeks...