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...name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy" as oldest man in West Point's 1917 class. Both know T.I.S. from early days when they lived in tents, handled 750 students a year...
...years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
...Harry T. Montgomery, cable news editor of A. P. in Manhattan; Book Editor Alexander Kendrick, Philadelphia Inquirer; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Editorial Writer Charles F. Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Harry M. Davis, New York Times feature writer; Reporters Nathan G. Caldwell (Nashville Tennesseean), John H. Crider (New York Times Washington bureau), Boyd T. Simmons (Detroit News), William J. Miller (Cleveland Press...
Some papers, like the Nashville Tennesseean, went shouting out into the street at the sinking of the Athenia: "German frightfulness . . . again roams the seas. . . . This nation wants no war, but there is no question where its sentiments lie." Others, like the Baltimore Evening Sun, remained stiffly in the parlor: "Neutral, as a nation, we are. And neutral we must be. A nation cannot afford the luxury of living-room emotions...
Then up to Willkie stepped in succession the representatives of 35 Tennessee cities, towns and cooperatives with checks totaling $33,696,795. First was Mayor Thomas L. Cummings of Nashville, who had been chivied by the Nashville Tennesseean and public opinion into following Tennessee's move to general public ownership. Said he, unmindful of TVAsters who stood near by: "Tennessee Electric Power always has given us the very best service. We regret that it is leaving the State of Tennessee...