Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
...would be unwise to approve a man on whose character and ability doubt has been east. They would evidently like the country to think that their stand is one of studied fair-mindedness rather than what it obviously is: a more subtle denunciation of the nominee than their Tennessean colleague's. but on identical grounds. Where McKellar shouts "Communist." Bridges, Wherry and Moore are content to cry "New Dealer," while all are united in their opposition because he is a "leftist...
...been front-page news when the mob was forming. Next day in the Nashville Tennessean the item reporting that the Negroes were innocent appeared on page...
Primary results last week: ¶ In Tennessee, cob-nosed Kenneth D. McKellar, premier porkbarreler and 77-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate, won renomination over Edward W. Carmack Jr., endorsed by C.I.O. and the Nashville Tennessean. Neither McKellar nor renominated Governor Jim McCord needed the usual thumping 40,000 majority delivered by Boss E. H. Crump's Shelby County machine, but they got it anyhow. McKellar also swept bloody McMinn County...
Poison Press. But when really aroused, he scribbles counterdenunciations, buys big newspaper ads to blast his tormentors. Chief target of Crump's vituperative essays is a pudgy outlander, Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. One anti-Evans masterpiece contained the following observations...