Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship on the Line. In many struck plants, relations between pickets and management were cordial. When rain and snow fell outside the giant aluminum plants at Alcoa, Tenn., the two pickets at each gate ducked into the warm guardhouses, chatted with the guards and company officials...
Smart, balding, 45-year-old Cinema-director Siodmak is rapidly becoming Hollywood's top horror man. He looks, talks and acts like a European import, but was actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan...
...twelve months, U.S. citizens tossed off 190,000,000 gallons of whiskey, gin, brandy, rum and cordials, tying 1942's national, post-repeal record for drinking. They had trouble at home-in Reno a record 8,590 divorce suits were filed; in Hamilton County, Tenn., there were five times more marital split-ups than marriages; all across the nation the divorce rate boomed to new levels...
Witty, studious William Henry Hastie, 41, appointed by President Truman last week, has been dean of Washington's Howard University Law School for six years,' has long been a capable public servant. Born to a pharmacist father and schoolteacher mother in Knoxville, Tenn., he was graduated magna cum laude from Amherst, went on to Harvard Law School. There he became one of the few Negroes ever to serve on the Law Review, and one of Felix Frankfurter's Happy Hot Dogs...
Unbearable Tenant. In Clinton, Tenn., a landlord asked OPA for permission to evict a 300-lb. tenant before she caved in his new porch...