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Word: tennessean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: One Man's Meat | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Stevenson's staff handed out a series of quotations from Kefauver's past utterances selected to show that the Tennessean has taken the Southern Democrats' side on the race issue. At one point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: One Man's Meat | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Well-played stories of how integration succeeded in local schools have also distinguished the coverage of the Nashville Tennessean-(circ, 113,439) and Banner (circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dilemma in Dixie | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Targets. Under its New Dealing publisher (a favorite Evans slogan: "No Republican is fit to hold public office"), the Tennessean hovered protectively over TVA, opposed Eisenhower mainly because Evans suspected the President did not favor further public-power expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit Evans, Enter Evans | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Tennessean targets are Republican. Democratic Governor Frank Clement has been elected twice over all-out opposition from the Tennessean, which charges Clement with being a front man for his lawyer father. At the head of the editorial column, seven days a week, it runs a list of "Tennessean Firsts," i.e., top-priority goals, such as bringing industries to Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit Evans, Enter Evans | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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