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...from the University of Michigan and getting a law degree at George Washington University, young MacPhail turned down an appointment to the French consular service. At 25 he was president of a Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke Lea, who, at 38, had already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee mountaineers. Accepted by the Army as the 114th Field Artillery, they went to France, where they survived the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
Tennessee. Aging, dapper Boss Ed Crump, who can swing 57,000 Memphis votes with his little finger, proved that his grip on Tennessee is as tight as ever. Over formidable opposition-supported mightily by New Deal Publisher Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean-Crump's men swept the Democratic primary...
...bombing blew them some good. Captain Leland Pearson Lovette, whose destroyer was sunk at Pearl Harbor, was appointed assistant to Rear Admiral Hepburn, Chief of Navy Public Relations. He succeeds popular Commander Robert ("Bob") Berry, who will shortly return to active sea duty. "Leon" Lovette, a big, amiable Tennessean, headed Navy's Press Section from 1937 to 1940, has a lot of Washington newspaper friends to show...
What Chicago saw was a full-size, 72-page first edition with format and typography resembling a cross between the New York Herald Tribune and Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean. It had a good sports section, competent Washington dispatches, but was weak on writing, painfully weak on comics (mostly new). Advertising-wise its first issue was fat to bursting (over 300 columns), with a listing of 150 advertisers who were turned away (though much of it doubtless came under the same heading as the twelve-page section of congratulatory letters...
Since then Silliman Evans has successfully carried off several big jobs; but none bigger than when in 1937 he bought the Nashville Tennessean, four years in receivership, impoverished by the mismanagement of its jailed publisher, Colonel Luke Lea, and soon made it again one of the most powerful papers in the State, one of the best-read Southern papers in Washington...