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Word: tennesseean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Edward Terry Sanford, 62, the third Harding appointee, was once president of the Harvard Alumi Association. A Tennesseean with affiliations ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to Kiwanis, he ranges back & forth between liberalism and conservatism with the open mind of one who sat on district benches for 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Supreme Convention | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people of the South are more filled with "booster spirit" (civic pride). But the news was mitigated by a notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Atlanta | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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