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...Casualty Co., politically sagacious Silliman Evans, 43, who left the vice-presidency of American Airways in 1932 to run Vice President Garner's Presidential boom and then rode the Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean seemed to guarantee the New Deal a strengthened friend in Nashville...
...from finding Cordell Hull crude, they were disarmed by his gentle smile, his unquestionable sincerity. To them the ''Good Neighbor Policy" was only a phrase, until Cordell Hull's plain Tennessean neighborliness made it suddenly credible...
Twanging, one-eyed Cartoonist Carey Cassius Orr left the Nashville Tennessean 19 years ago to join the Chicago Tribune as No. 2 cartoonist. First draughtsman of the Tribune then as now was John Tinney McCutcheon. Fortnight ago the Tribune again raided the Tennessean for an artist. It was announced that to the Chicago paper on Aug. 1 would go 30-year-old Joseph Parrish, whose work Cartoonist Orr and Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick had been quietly admiring. Packing up in Nashville, Democratic Cartoonist Joe Parrish drawled: "Now I reckon I'll have to learn how to draw Republican...
...Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Hull and Postmaster General Farley. In Nashville next day they and 45,000 of Joe Byrns's homefolk paid a last tribute to the only Tennessean to be Speaker of the House since James K. Polk in 1839, laid him to rest in a cemetery eight miles from the grave of another famed Tennessee Democrat, Andrew Jackson...
...ultimately, the Tennessean absorbed its archrival, the American. PERRY ARNOLD...