Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarksville, Tenn...
William F. Wright, of Nashville, Tenn., as teaching fellow in Mechanical Engineering; B. E. Vanderbilt University '40, candidate for S.M. Vanderbilt...
Vultee is already tooled up to make the stubby, two-place Vengeance in quantity, in a new plant at Nashville, Tenn. Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in California will also make the Vengeance. At dedication ceremonies this week, Wendell Willkie said that by year's end Vultee's Nashville plant will be turning out 100 planes a month...
Fisk's beginning, soon after the Civil War, was in a Federal hospital barracks in Nashville, Tenn. Thither, at the invitation of General Clinton Fisk, trooped Negroes of all ages, to get their schooling. They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall...
...cross-section of sentiment was obtained since the Negroes participating hailed from New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma, and the Niemans, who originated the seminars from Tennessee, South Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and California. Nathan G. Caldwell of Dunster House, a Nieman from Nashville, Tenn., served as chairman...